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by fundamental 1657 days ago
Call me a pessimist, but if the site caught onto some non-trivial traction it would be quickly overrun with unreasonably loud clips, people generally saying horrifying things without much recourse, and then slightly down the road TTS voices selling/promoting other sites. IMO for other anonymous text based sites it's easier to overlook some of these issues as well as it being easier to moderate the issues as they appear.

Looks like a nice implementation of the idea, the overall visual design is clean, and the preloaded content is nice, but I just don't trust the internet to not ruin a good thing.

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Thanks for checking it out and especially for your feedback! I definitely agree. I have some easy ideas to tackle at least some of these concerns (e.g. normalize volumes, block posts beyond a volume threshold, implement a CAPTCHA to post, etc.).