I have not visted many of these so explore at your own risk.
Thank you very much bro!!
Isn’t Lemmy pretty much that?
actually it depends on which instance you have chosen and the privacy policy of chosen instance. my instance doesn’t require an email so it’s pretty much anonymous like 4chan. but I want to find out some different forum or board that isn’t Lemmy.
Edit: plus you can’t post without an account on Lemmy.
It would be interesting to make a Lemmy fork that doesn’t require login and registers all posts as anonymous@(instance). Would probably get insta defederated by every other instance though lol
Lemmy is pseudoanonymous, not anonymous, since we all have noms de plume.
The rest of you are all cowards. I use my real name on here.
Sure thing Seymour.
Hi doc. Any idea when I’ll next be due a colonoscopy?
Why are you piling work on him?
I pegged him capable of handling it - all of it, not just the tip of the iceberg.
Folks, he’s just making his rounds, and is a little behind
He works for the Navy and the Rear Admiral is next up.
Same
Almost, I would guess OP is talking about places to post that doesn’t require accounts.
Anything is anonymous if you register with a fake name and email.
That is pseudonymity, not anonymity
Just as anonymous as trip tags.
Any other chan.
such as?
8chan
Jackie
Just put a number in front. I’m not gonna recommend any specific one because some of them have disturbing content.
In case of 4chan it’s obviously other anonymous imageboards. There doesn’t seem to functionality in Lemmy that would allow for posting without accounts.
Accounts (which contain the private key that signs the headers in your posts, and the public key to verify) are required for ActivityPub to work.
hmm, maybe I should open an issue on github about it? however it will make moderating communities difficult.
Not possible really. The protocol Lemmy uses requires accounts, not only as a soft requirement, but the software your instance would be interacting with requires it to function.
It could always use an “anonymous” pseudo-account, (ie, have anonymous posts federate as [email protected]), or a pseudo-account per post ([email protected], anonymous2, etc). Thinking about it, the former has the advantage of being easy to block by instances or comms that don’t like it.
I imagine it wouldn’t be hard to add that functionality to an instance, but given the pearl clutching Lemmy instance admins are prone to it would be defed pretty quickly.
Tell you what: you go host that instance, with no pearl-clutching. Don’t worry about any knocks at the door, or federal agents abseiling through your windows. You don’t clutch no pearls, right?
My point was more that instance admins defed for things that are comparatively minor, relative to allowing anonymous posting, not that allowing anonymous posting is a good idea (even if it’s technically possible).
Sorry you being able to store child porn on my instance is considered pearl clutching. No fucking way I want that responsibility because I like to read memes.
It would be defed pretty quickly because all bots, alt right trolls, pedophiles and anyone looking to share illegal content would instantly flock to it.
Amen, Sopuli woudln’t federate with such instance either. It would introduce too much problems. Bad idea.
From what I’ve seen 4chan seems to be able to keep at least two of those out with captcha and jannnies.
You’d probably need to limit anonymous posting to local communities to prevent issues though.
Removed by mod
Tumblr, depending on where you go on there.
The dark web has many truly anonymous forums, if you can tolerate the subject matter.
Looks like Slashdot no longer allows Anonymous Cowards. TIL.
(I’m not editorializing — that’s what you’d show up as if you posted anonymously.)
There are dozens, maybe hundreds of chans alone, and that’s just one style of message board.
yup, found dozens like that. https://chatgpt.com/share/9d17779c-9401-47ca-b914-cc8efcc39297