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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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[–] faythofdragons@slrpnk.net 3 points 22 hours ago

I swear I saw this post yesterday

[–] solrize@lemmy.ml 2 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

You mean an internet venue? Hell no, absolutely not needed, we got by without it for thousands of years and it was fine.

[–] humanobserver@lemmy.world 1 points 21 hours ago

People have always confessed things anonymously.

The internet just made the room bigger.

[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 2 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Yes. Sometimes you want to talk about stuff without people knowing your history for better or worse.

[–] humanobserver@lemmy.world 1 points 22 hours ago

That’s exactly the thought behind it.

Sometimes people don’t want advice or discussion. Just somewhere to drop the thought and move on.

[–] mfed1122@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] humanobserver@lemmy.world 1 points 21 hours ago

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.

[–] birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 22 hours ago

Given the fascist regime, privacy is an absolute right.