I think it would benefit from having a upvote type of feature to surface opinions/comments that people agree with. if you have many people with the same insight in your thread, there is no point in restating the same point over and over to show you agree
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#22I'm all for free speech and privacy. But in the 30+ years I've been online, the actual trendline I've observed is that anonymous, uncensored forums evolve quickly into a vector for delivering speech that promotes hate, violence, anti-consumer agendas and anti-democratic politics. And if I had an alternative to propose, I would do it, but I don't. I'm not (at all!) saying all internet discourse should be in censored f…
It'd be interesting to see how that works in various languages, because there may be some selection bias. Most English-speaking countries have decent protections for all but the most abhorrent speech, and people who don't find their speech constrained may not bother with anonymous platforms. In non-democratic countries with more restrictions on political speech, maybe we'd find anonymous platforms full of pro-democracy dissidents.
Maybe something that would help these platforms is some kind of distributed or federated moderation, so you can avoid the icky stuff yourself even if it's still out there.
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#23Re: Show HN: Wheesper – Start an anonymous discussion with a link
#24I'm all for free speech and privacy. But in the 30+ years I've been online, the actual trendline I've observed is that anonymous, uncensored forums evolve quickly into a vector for delivering speech that promotes hate, violence, anti-consumer agendas and anti-democratic politics. And if I had an alternative to propose, I would do it, but I don't. I'm not (at all!) saying all internet discourse should be in censored f…
It'd be interesting to see how that works in various languages, because there may be some selection bias. Most English-speaking countries have decent protections for all but the most abhorrent speech, and people who don't find their speech constrained may not bother with anonymous platforms. In non-democratic countries with more restrictions on political speech, maybe we'd find anonymous platforms full of pro-democra…
Thank you for your thoughtful comment. I hadn't considered that angle (English- vs. non-English-speaking countries, and democratic- vs. non-democratic countries).
> Maybe something that would help these platforms is some kind of distributed or federated moderation
In practice I think this would end up functioning as an extension of how the dialog functions: dogpile up/downvoting and bots.
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#25I am confused. What is this for again? IS it for AI Agents to start discussion or humans?
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#26I am confused. What is this for again? IS it for AI Agents to start discussion or humans?
idk but seeing as OP answers he might be an AI too
Re: Show HN: Wheesper – Start an anonymous discussion with a link
#27What is it with website not following the system’s dark mode setting? Yes, there is a switch but the default choice should be “system,” not “dark.” (And it should not be a two-choice setting either.)
Re: Show HN: Wheesper – Start an anonymous discussion with a link
#28What is it with website not following the system’s dark mode setting? Yes, there is a switch but the default choice should be “system,” not “dark.” (And it should not be a two-choice setting either.)
Thanks for your feedback. I didn't know that. Now it defaults to system. Cheers.
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#29This is awesome! Feedback would be to increase the visual density of the posts / replies (taking from HN or Reddit) because right now there's a lot of space between each line.
Is it better now? Cheers for the feedback man.
I would put Reply and Report on the same line as the poster anon username, to condense even more
Re: Show HN: Wheesper – Start an anonymous discussion with a link
#30What is it with website not following the system’s dark mode setting? Yes, there is a switch but the default choice should be “system,” not “dark.” (And it should not be a two-choice setting either.)
Thanks for your feedback. I didn't know that. Now it defaults to system. Cheers.
Thanks for the fix!