Call it something like greentext or confessions or something. Anyone posting is automatically set to Anonymous with no link whatsoever to the original account for admin or users to track or in the logs/activity pub etc. Like the person will not get replies, notifications on their account for the post, or the ability to reply as Anon. Simply streamline creation of a throw away account using the existing credentials of an existing account for post access and to give automod a chance to act. Maybe bar new accounts or below a certain threshold of engagement.

  • slazer2au@lemmy.worldEnglish
    16·
    4 days ago

    Sounds ripe for spam.

    There is fchan if you want the 4chan experience with activity pub intervention

  • TootSweet@lemmy.worldEnglish
    13·
    4 days ago

    One could make a community named “Anon Posting” or something, lock it so only a mod can post, and then make the sole mod a bot that would post anything it got via DM (probably after automoding, rate limiting, etc) to said community.

    I do think it’s a good idea for the bot to keep a log in case it gets abused for sufficiently evil purposes. One could add some extra functionality to the bot that would give identifying information about the poster to instance admins on demand (via DM), but I think instance admins would have pretty easy access to all DMs made to the bot, along with identifying information anyway. (Feel free to correct me if I’m wrong on that.)

    Also, the bot could totally delete its logs and with them the identities of all posters after a while. Maybe a month?

    And, of course, this wouldn’t be ironclad anonymity. But it would keep identities secret from anyone but the bot maintainer and instance admins.

    Yeah, sounds like a pretty cool concept. Not volunteering to write such a bot (at least any time soon) or anything, but I support it.

  • Hello_there@fedia.io
    6·
    4 days ago

    I bet you could create a system that runs someone user and domain thru a hash to produce a different alphanumeric value. Display that value instead of user@domain.
    So not exactly like 4chan, in that everyone has a user. But a username that is isolated from rest of fediverse. That would allow for ‘confessions’ type posts to not be linked to a standard account. And preserve ability of mods to ban the racists and trolls.
    I’m not coder. But it seems possible.

  • scytale@lemmy.zipEnglish
    2·
    4 days ago

    There’s a 4chan equivalent that uses activitypub, I just forgot the name.