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by jayeshsalvi 3435 days ago
But they are not one-on-one. They are public. They are not anonymous.
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"Public forum" is not at all the same thing as "not anonymous".
In public forum, anonymity is achieved by pseudonimity (one has to go to a trouble of creating account under fake name). But a service that doesn't have logins, the anonimity is default and easy.