Comment on Is it actually healthy for people to have a place to confess things anonymously?

• Nomad@infosec.pub ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The church invented that to control the secrets in any congregation. So yeah, bad thing. Backroom sounds like a fun idea. How would you ensure peoples anonymity and privacy? How would you fund this?

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  • humanobserver@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Good question.

    The idea is basically to remove identity completely. No accounts required to read. Posting is session based and nothing links back to a person. Even chats auto-delete after 24h.

    The goal is that the secret is the only thing that exists. Not the person behind it.

    Funding later would probably come from hosts running rooms people pay a small amount to enter. But right now it’s just an experiment to see if people actually want a place like this.

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    • redsand@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      simplex.chat

      Set up Tor and make a chat confession group and you’re pretty much there

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      • humanobserver@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

        Simplex is interesting.

        The difference here would be that it’s not private messaging. The idea is short public confessions that appear in rooms and disappear again after a few days.

        More like anonymous graffiti than a chat group.

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    • RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      What would stop it from becoming 4chan?

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      • humanobserver@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Fair concern.

        4chan is anonymous but completely unstructured.

        Backroom is built around hosts running rooms with their own rules. If a room becomes toxic, people simply stop entering it.

        So moderation happens at the room level, not through identity.

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    • Nomad@infosec.pub ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      So no logging IP addresses of people posting or anything like that?

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      • humanobserver@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        IP addresses are only handled at the infrastructure level for basic abuse protection.

        They are not connected to posts or identities and nothing is stored that could link a confession back to a person.

        The whole design tries to separate the secret from the individual as much as possible.

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    • mimavox@piefed.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Not to shit on your idea, but why would anyone want to read such things in the first place? I get the need to get something off your chest, but I don’t get why someone would be interested in hearing it?

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      • humanobserver@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        That’s actually the most interesting part.

        People are curious about what others really think but never say out loud. Confessions, secrets, uncomfortable truths.

        It’s the same reason anonymous confession pages and posts tend to spread so easily.

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