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

RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• humanobserver@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  That’s actually a really good point.

  Confession probably worked for centuries because people needed a place to say things they couldn’t say anywhere else.

  Backroom is basically trying to recreate that idea, just anonymously and without religion.

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  • Nomad@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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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      • RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        What would stop it from becoming 4chan?

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      • redsand@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        simplex.chat

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

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      • Nomad@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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

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      • mimavox@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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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• Solumbran@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Yeah and the catholics are the most moral and good people around.

  Who the fuck sees Catholicism as a proof of success?

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  • meco03211@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    To be fair, their version also came with forgiveness and absolution. So I’m sure plenty of pedos confessed their sins only to be told, “say a few hail Mary’s, and try not to do it again. But as far as god is concerned, it’s like it never happened.” So they could convince themselves they did nothing wrong.

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    • Solumbran@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I don’t know why you’re using the past tense, the church is still defending them.

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      • meco03211@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        The church used to defend pedos. They still do, but they used to too.

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• minorkeys@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  And the church used those confessions to control things.

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  • architect@thelemmy.club ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Yea I was going to say… for blackmail!

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