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Re: Wait, WUT?

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post #18

I am not really sure what people mean when they say "anonymous" anymore. This app requires a Facebook account. Facebook is a service that all but defines itself on identity verification.

Anonymous to your friends, not anonymous to the service or law enforcement. There should be a word for this... maybe "pseudoanonymous"?

Re: Wait, WUT?

#22
What we need is a form of anonymous / pseudo-anonymous reputation brokerage. Tokens that identify not a person, but how trusted or how well liked that token has been used. You control your tokens, what networks, where they are used. An older token is worth more to you, and to others that see it. The values associated to a token varies depending on the tokens around it. Upvotes, downvotes, activities, flags from the various places where the token is uses contributes to the values attached to the tokens. It's a fuzzy concept at the moment, but I think as these new generation of applications grow, one that we may see evolve.

Re: Wait, WUT?

#23
post #18

I am not really sure what people mean when they say "anonymous" anymore. This app requires a Facebook account. Facebook is a service that all but defines itself on identity verification.

Anonymous to your friends, not anonymous to the service or law enforcement. There should be a word for this... maybe "pseudoanonymous"?

Contingently Anonymous.

Re: Wait, WUT?

#24
post #22

What we need is a form of anonymous / pseudo-anonymous reputation brokerage. Tokens that identify not a person, but how trusted or how well liked that token has been used. You control your tokens, what networks, where they are used. An older token is worth more to you, and to others that see it. The values associated to a token varies depending on the tokens around it. Upvotes, downvotes, activities, flags from the v…

You're missing the point, it's about not even having a reputation to follow you about

Re: Wait, WUT?

#25
post #18

I am not really sure what people mean when they say "anonymous" anymore. This app requires a Facebook account. Facebook is a service that all but defines itself on identity verification.

Anonymous to your friends, not anonymous to the service or law enforcement. There should be a word for this... maybe "pseudoanonymous"?

I would call it curtain anonymous.

Re: Wait, WUT?

#26
post #18

I am not really sure what people mean when they say "anonymous" anymore. This app requires a Facebook account. Facebook is a service that all but defines itself on identity verification.

Anonymous to your friends, not anonymous to the service or law enforcement. There should be a word for this... maybe "pseudoanonymous"?

'pseudonymous' I believe.

Re: Wait, WUT?

#27

It would be incredibly useful if there were a link to the App in question. WUT isn't very googleable, it wasn't entirely obvious from the article that it's an iPhone exclusive App, not a website or available on Android.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/wut-semi-anonymous-chat./id7...

Re: Wait, WUT?

#28
post #17

It would be incredibly useful if there were a link to the App in question. WUT isn't very googleable, it wasn't entirely obvious from the article that it's an iPhone exclusive App, not a website or available on Android.

If you Google "wut app" it's the first hit.

I'm working on a search product now. I find it really fascinating that many people immediately know and have adopted this "specific-type general-type" query structure, whereas many others have no idea.

It feels like we're on the verge of slowly evolving a new human-computer communication language. Definitely within the next 20 years it will happen. Not just a list of instructions or model descriptions like programming languages are, for example you can't translate an arbitrary Engish sentence into a programming language. No, I think this time we're watching a full language, in the linguistic sense, evolve in front of us.

Of course, search engines will also have to evolve beyond the "do-know-go" communication types that they're married to now, to get to the next stage.

Re: Wait, WUT?

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post #18

I am not really sure what people mean when they say "anonymous" anymore. This app requires a Facebook account. Facebook is a service that all but defines itself on identity verification.

Anonymous to your friends, not anonymous to the service or law enforcement. There should be a word for this... maybe "pseudoanonymous"?

Anonymity theatre?
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