Great to be able to keep data storage local.. see my recent comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48967684 .. so basically P2P chat from within the browser.

Also, like many paste-bins, perhaps avoid asking for emails in sign-ups and be able to set expiry times on chats. Dead-man switch expire? Another idea would be to accept emails as a way to post into a discussion without viewing the site and enabling rss to keep track of new comments.

It'd be weird if someone could forward an email of a long discussion and have it format correctly for public web-viewing. Smartdox? I guess the LLMs would like slurping it all up. As long as names could be auto-redacted, it may end up being used - confidentiality agreements are the issue. Maybe as an email backup for important threads with the public thing as an option?

Once an email is received a reply is sent asking for micro-payment. EmailStash. SeedyBackup. DoxNation. DoxNow.

Check it out now. Thank you.

Keeping discussion local is the key, as someone could acquire Wheesper one day and anything could happen at that point - just as browser extensions change hands and things can head south fast.

Check now :)

Ok. Will do!

You may not use Wheesper to:

break the law, facilitate illegal activity, or violate another person's rights;

threaten, harass, stalk, exploit, or seriously harm another person;

share child sexual abuse material, intimate imagery without consent, or sexually exploit any person;

publish another person's private or identifying information without a lawful basis;

impersonate someone, commit fraud, deceive participants, or conduct phishing;

infringe intellectual property, confidentiality, privacy, or other proprietary rights;

distribute malware, harmful code, spam, or unsolicited bulk messages;

probe, disrupt, overload, scrape, reverse engineer, or bypass access controls, rate limits, bot protections, or security measures, except where applicable law expressly permits security research; or

help another person do any of the above.

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...then what the heck do we need this service for?

(Obviously, this comment is meant as a joke.)

Created a link, I am the new dang!!

https://wheesper.com/d/w8vGpMUenFR_rQCd2XJlNsKCWNUzmbCmkitmA...

Unfortunately it is a necessary compromise, because free speech is essential to a working civilization.

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.

I would put Reply and Report on the same line as the poster anon username, to condense even more

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

idk but seeing as OP answers he might be an AI too

Thanks for the fix!