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asim 3 days ago

Every attempt at anonymous social fails terribly. Unfortunately without good moderation tooling this doesn't work. You have to limit the blast radius of what people put out there because on the internet, without repercussions, a lot of people say terrible things. After having tried a few things like this, it's clear identity matters. Yes you can find clever ways to get around it and surface the best content or have pseudonyms and all that, but essentially you must verify individuals. People need to know you can't just say anything aka you can't say terrible hurtful things without repercussions. You need a unique identifier per browser, per device, etc, and then you permaban anyone who uses vulgar language, racial slurs, or anything of the sort immediately. You use AI before the fact to actually moderate and check things, and anything that is attempted gets a warning.

Someone else said, let's go a step further and not post at all. You know what, YES. We have X, we have Facebook, we have many tools where you can create an account with any random email address, with any random name, and say anything you want. Let's leave behind the two decades of public social and go back to the real world e.g maybe there's a world in which you own what you say, its there forever and you have to be thoughtful before you say it, but we also put it in an appropriate place, in a category of communication that makes sense. Blogging was way better than microblogging, but obviously opening the door to everyone made social media far more viral and addictive. Adding pictures and video made it even more viral and addictive. It would just be nice to go back to something a bit more real, something that's not going to be horribly abused and it feels like part of that might mean, less public social.

throwaway19340 3 days ago | parent [-]

> You have to limit the blast radius of what people put out there because on the internet, without repercussions, a lot of people say terrible things

And yet those same repercussions are the reason why social media is full of inoffensive slop. No one wants be the one who get fired for leaking their employer's unethical practices, after all.

Pseudonymity is not enough, sadly. Given enough time, you'll leak enough data points to be identified.

> Let's leave behind the two decades of public social and go back to the real world

The idea that the "internet" and the "real world" are separate has been outdated for a long time.