Re:Show HN: Vigyaa Anonymous – A safe place to write and rea...
by goelgarry1980 on Monday August 24, 2020 @11:55PM
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I get your point about spiralling down depression reading the posts there. We aim to segregate such posts using NLP so they don't crowd the center stage. But we can't and dont want to stop such posts as venting helps these people. And then there are many frequent users now that spend time helping other through reply posts.
ISP point noted and will see what we can do about that.
Also, as others pointed out itt, the problem with anonymity and deanonymisation is not in ip addresses or similar technical trails. To be anonymous, you have to check what you speak of on anonymous board and irl constantly, and which information you disclose, either consciously or in small details. Many slow aib users can recognize each other just by a little amount of text. You can also never know whether your readers could do A+B+C of your story or a comment and recognize you or someone from your environment irl. Your life is unique enough to do that, even if all you do is sitting before the screen all the time. I'd suggest to lurk for few years before getting out of readonly to evaluate your ability to stay anonymous, but only if there was something to do there in the first place.
It is also funny that it is called safe, when all you need to detect who said what at the legal level is your isp's metadata.