from humanobserver@lemmy.world to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world on 16 Mar 20:51
https://lemmy.world/post/44351194
Serious question.
Have you ever had a thought you knew you could never say out loud?
Not illegal.
Not something dramatic.
Just something that would change how people see you.
A doubt about your partner.
Something you regret but never admitted.
A quiet thought about a friend or family member.
Most people carry things like that for years.
And the strange part is that we usually don’t even need advice.
We just want to say it somewhere without it attaching to our name.
No profile.
No history.
No identity.
Just the truth for a moment.
I’ve been experimenting with something called Backroom built around that idea.
A place where people post one-line anonymous confessions that disappear again.
No followers.
No profiles.
Just the thought.
I’m honestly curious though:
If something like that existed, would people actually use it?
Or are some thoughts better left unsaid forever?
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Given the fascist regime, privacy is an absolute right.
Privacy is definitely part of it.
But I’m also curious about the psychological side of it.
People often carry thoughts they never say anywhere. Not because they’re illegal or extreme, just because saying them would change how people see them.
I swear I saw this post yesterday
Possible. I reposted it to see how different communities react. Curious if the idea still feels useful.
Yes. Sometimes you want to talk about stuff without people knowing your history for better or worse.
That’s exactly the thought behind it.
Sometimes people don’t want advice or discussion. Just somewhere to drop the thought and move on.
So can other people even see the post? Can I view other posts by most recent, or any other order? I think there’s appeal to the idea of anonymously confessing things. 4chan and many other imageboards are built on this. Can also do it on many other websites by just making alt accounts. I think you need to more clearly think through what unique benefit your proposed idea would provide.
Yes, people can see them.
But the idea isn’t a forum or discussion board.
Posts are just one-line thoughts that disappear again. No profiles. No history. No threads.
More like dropping a thought somewhere and walking away.
You mean an internet venue? Hell no, absolutely not needed, we got by without it for thousands of years and it was fine.
People have always confessed things anonymously.
The internet just made the room bigger.