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I recently launched Libre , a small side project and social experiment. It’s not a social network, but kind of the opposite:

No profiles, usernames, or followers

No likes, trending topics, or algorithms

No ads, no data collection

Just anonymous thoughts from people around the world. Curious to see how it evolves and what kind of conversations happen when metrics are removed.

I feel like this kind of how Twitter started. Just text messages to the world. But it’s hard to resist monetization and network effects.
That's incredible. Within the first 5 posts we've got "Javascript is overrated", "tabs are better than spaces", something about trains/public transit, and a link to a hentai site. Talk about speed-running social media.
It's full of the n-word right now. I'm really not surprised.
UI seems a little jank on iPhone SE, other than that, cool project. Q. How do you prevent racism, spam and hate speech?
I've always liked the idea of being able to just post anonymously without any votes, but it always quickly devolves into incoherent spam and endless slurs.

The website has been active for an hour and I'm already seeing some of that. It always turns into 4chan.

I mean yeah it would turn into 4chan since 4chan is also a anonymous board similar to this...

But what's wild is that when you say it always turns into 4chan, everyone knows that it means something bad, something bs.

the fact that 4chan has such a bad reputation is absolutely valid though, there is no denying of it, and maybe these other experiments also prove it that such reputation maybe exists because of the reason that the underlying system is flawed regarding anonymity, but that's just my hunch.

I like anonymity as an ideal, but 4chan (anonymity irl) not so much...

Interesting, but after my initial impressions I predict the results of the experiment will be "this is why we can't have nice things"
This is kind of the same idea as Yik Yak, which was an interesting app. Some good aspects (authenticity) and some bad aspects (lots of bomb threats and bullying).
I like the project, but the words "Libre" and "experiment" made me assume it would be open source. Of course, it's the owner's decision, but the title biased my expectation.
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This reminds me of the early internet.
The "Import ID" feature doesn't seem to work. I keep getting this error: "The identifier is not valid."
Reported racism, showed “Reporting…”, got:

“Could not send the report. Please try again.”

When I tried to post a comment saying what I thought of the idea of this site, it told me that my words were "prohibited". So much for freedom.
Good ole anonymous boards. Nothing else like them brings out the worst in humanity
Biggest issue is reporting posts is broken
The problem with openness and anonymity is that it invites bad actors. Social media is an unsolved problem and any platform that gets sufficiently large will be more valuable as a tool to disseminate misinformation and propaganda than as a tool for people to actually communate freely and openly.
With none of those features there is no excuse for the site working that terribly with JS disabled. Look at HN for comparison, which degrades gracefully with JS disabled.
I always thought there was a space for a social media that has upvotes and followers and all that, with the intention of creating echo chambers and segregating users into their own groups and that sort of thing, but with the ability for anyone to go on a 'holiday' into the other echo chambers, to see what those other users experience.

Likes are not one dimensional. Likes flow from one person to another. If you like someones posts, you're more likely to enjoy the things they like. A network of endorsement emerges and the subgroups can become clear.

> There are no 'likes', no followers, no algorithms here. There is only the freedom to express yourself with radical anonymity and connect purely.

> Start being FREE

Love the concept, let’s go one step further. No publishing at all. Only you can see what you wrote. No need to connect to anything, even if it’s “pure”.

For a stress-test, your doing pretty well.
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You are describing a standard message board. Old things are new again I suppose.