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 --- A GOPHER-LIKE INTERFACE FOR HIVE BLOCKCHAIN ---

Introducing AnonRamblings - Say whatever you want, anonymously on the Hive blockchain.

BY: @emrebeyler | CREATED: May 16, 2020, 3:23 a.m. | VOTES: 530 | PAYOUT: $159.40 | [ VOTE ]

In a world obsessed with political correctness some thoughts are better left anon. What if you had a place to share those thoughts, ideas, or ramblings?

A place you could start a fun, perhaps taboo, conversation without the worry of it being attached to your name?

Or maybe even a confession you want to tell the world but don’t want to worry about your reputation?

AnonRamblings - a place to share your inner thoughts, with the protection of anonymity.

Well, AnonRamblings is there for you.

Resource Link Tech Stack Python & Django Repository emre/anonramblings Libraries & Open Source Components requirements.txt Base Bootstrap Theme Clean Blog *** ****

AnonRamblings is a web application on the top of HIVE network. You can post to the blockchain anonymously by using the app.

It's simple and stupid. It's built in one Friday night. Procrastination was hard on that one, I've waited until the last day, 'till last night.

Just go to the submit page, type in your thoughts, and send!

[IMAGE: https://images.hive.blog/DQmaZGZG2nvUDL5n5r6PoJ4YG4C4GctqFKvTVGkGC7oQ9Sq/Screen%20Shot%202020-05-16%20at%2004.44.56.png]

Notes

Roadmap

I wanted a minimum viable product that can be done in a short time, yet demonstrate it's core purpose. If we see the volume and have fun using it, this is the roadmap:

These tokens will be created and given to the creator after the creation.

Users can be able to see the comments of a "rambling", can vote them up/down, comment on them, etc. Keychain or Hivesigner would be the authentication tool.

Credits

The original idea belongs to @xxxxxxxxxx. I was looking for ideas to implement and he was there to save the day. Special thanks to @justineh for the help in the preparation process. The logo is designed by @ruen.

Also thanks to all the sponsors and @themarkymark for the event.

TAGS: [ #anonramblings ] [ #hackathon-entries ] [ #hackathon ]

Replies

@hjchilb | May 16, 2020, 3:27 a.m. | Votes: 0 | [ VOTE ]

Hmm, this seems pretty neat.
Could be useful in the free speech department.
Thanks for the share.

@emrebeyler | May 16, 2020, 3:30 a.m. | Votes: 1 | [ VOTE ]

let's see what happens :)

@mmmmkkkk311 | May 16, 2020, 3:48 a.m. | Votes: 0 | [ VOTE ]

Are you kidding me? Google reCaptcha? I don't want to teach AI for free how to recognize objects. I don't want to have any google scripts on my devices

@emrebeyler | May 16, 2020, 3:49 a.m. | Votes: 2 | [ VOTE ]

Recaptcha was the fastest solution for a one-night project. We can change it later. No kidding.

@rishi556 | May 16, 2020, 3:55 a.m. | Votes: 0 | [ VOTE ]

One night? Its better to have some Birt help you with the UI on the final hour because you don't know how to make UI's and he does and he entered so you had to prove that you were better than him and you asked for his help and he somehow accepted and now you are entering a hackathon that you had no plan to do so till the final day.

@xxxxxxxxxx | May 16, 2020, 4:01 a.m. | Votes: 0 | [ VOTE ]

Is Birt friends with Karen?

@rishi556 | May 16, 2020, 4:05 a.m. | Votes: 0 | [ VOTE ]

Of course.

@howo | May 16, 2020, 12:14 p.m. | Votes: 0 | [ VOTE ]

Lol don't be salty he literally said he would participate when marky announced it. He has plans to participate the whole time.

@rishi556 | May 16, 2020, 1:01 p.m. | Votes: 0 | [ VOTE ]

Haha I’m not. I had no plans to participate but did so last minute so just messing around.

@belemo | May 17, 2020, 7:41 a.m. | Votes: 0 | [ VOTE ]

There's hcaptcha that also works fine and isn't affiliated with Google

@gaottantacinque | May 18, 2020, 4:50 a.m. | Votes: 1 | [ VOTE ]

You can use hCaptcha

@michealb | May 16, 2020, 4:04 a.m. | Votes: 1 | [ VOTE ]

like :)

@emrebeyler | May 16, 2020, 4:05 a.m. | Votes: 0 | [ VOTE ]

Enjoy! :)

@talkingwiseshit | May 16, 2020, 4:43 a.m. | Votes: 1 | [ VOTE ]

Sorry but I hate this idea. Always hated anonymous contents, unless it’s something that you could go to jail for...

@emrebeyler | May 16, 2020, 4:51 a.m. | Votes: 1 | [ VOTE ]

No need to be sorry, the way I see this is a fun experiment.

@jamesdeagle | May 17, 2020, 3:33 p.m. | Votes: 1 | [ VOTE ]

I respectfully disagree. While I generally post under my legal name (including all of my Hive, Medium, and Twitter content), I see no moral nor ethical problems with posting anonymously, especially when speaking truth to power. (For the purposes of this comment, I'm not concerned, nor am I sympathetic to, speech that is intended merely to hurt other people in any way, even though I also believe that there's no such thing as the right to not be offended.)

I used to think otherwise, and believed in the nobility of posting exclusively under my legal identity. But then I realized that with Big Tech (Facebook, Google, etc.), our legal identities, and the data we generate by being online or even just carrying smartphones around, are commodities to be sold to the highest bidder, and offered up to government and industry for endless analysis and exploitation.

Besides jail, there are also civil actions that can arise from expressing oneself, even if there's no legal merit to such actions. Where litigation is concerned, whoever spends the most on lawyers wins.

Even if there are no legal consequences, there is always the threat of reputational ruin or some other form of collateral damage, for merely holding an unfashionable political view.

And so, in this day and age where powerful interests want to control our speech, anonymity can be a form of protection for saying what needs to be said without fear of unjust persecution. Otherwise, our legal identities are often something that can be used against us to keep us under control.

@talkingwiseshit | May 17, 2020, 4:32 p.m. | Votes: 1 | [ VOTE ]

As I said “unless it’s something you can go to jail for”. What I hate about the internet are the vicious attacks anonymous people usually use against other people (famous or regular people), attacks they wouldn’t dare using otherwise...

@jamesdeagle | May 17, 2020, 5:58 p.m. | Votes: 1 | [ VOTE ]

I think we're somewhat on the same page. I try not to go anywhere near my keyboard if I'm feeling riled up about something or someone--otherwise, I end up posting something I regret, and it never ends up being high-quality content on my part.

@marki99 | May 16, 2020, 5:21 a.m. | Votes: 1 | [ VOTE ]

How does it work exactly? Don't you get to see all the accounts who post (as the webmaster)

@emrebeyler | May 16, 2020, 10:41 a.m. | Votes: 3 | [ VOTE ]

You dont login or anything so how should webmaster know?

@codingdefined | May 16, 2020, 5:55 a.m. | Votes: 0 | [ VOTE ]

It's surely a nice experiment, I remember dPoll was originated through one of the Hackathon. Surely this will also become one of the good application.

@emrebeyler | May 16, 2020, 10:42 a.m. | Votes: 0 | [ VOTE ]

Thanks mate, gatsby plugin looks sharp!

@alrashel | May 16, 2020, 6:05 a.m. | Votes: 0 | [ VOTE ]

Cooooool Idea man !

@emrebeyler | May 16, 2020, 11:12 a.m. | Votes: 0 | [ VOTE ]

Thanks 👍

@roomservice | May 16, 2020, 6:25 a.m. | Votes: 0 | [ VOTE ]

So it's like wikileaks but instead of one entity holding the information, it will be put into chain? Brilliant!

@emrebeyler | May 16, 2020, 11:12 a.m. | Votes: 0 | [ VOTE ]

well, so far we're nowhere near wikileaks, but it could be. :)

@ash | May 16, 2020, 6:43 a.m. | Votes: 0 | [ VOTE ]

cool!

@emrebeyler | May 16, 2020, 11:13 a.m. | Votes: 0 | [ VOTE ]

🤘

@tykee | May 16, 2020, 9:07 a.m. | Votes: 0 | [ VOTE ]

I kinda like this, but the contents may not get any visibility.

@emrebeyler | May 16, 2020, 11:12 a.m. | Votes: 0 | [ VOTE ]

What do you mean?

@tykee | May 16, 2020, 11:29 a.m. | Votes: 0 | [ VOTE ]

The posts are stored in comments on the chain and there are lots of comment already. What would happen when we have like 1000 posts? I like the simple UI of the site, and how the post are displayed but what if I want my annonymous post to reach some set of people on the chain who are not using https://anonramblings.com at all?

@emrebeyler | May 16, 2020, 11:40 a.m. | Votes: 0 | [ VOTE ]

I hear you, main posts is refreshed every day, so the comment count per day should be manageable. If people use it very much and post hundreds/thausonds of stuff every day then I agree with you. Then we can think a solution but I don't want to solve scalability problems of the future. :)

@bobskibob | May 16, 2020, 12:49 p.m. | Votes: 0 | [ VOTE ]

how about posting them to a community as posts

@emrebeyler | May 16, 2020, 5:35 p.m. | Votes: 0 | [ VOTE ]

Doable. But there is a five min, one post restriction in main posts - which may create larger queues.

@bobskibob | May 16, 2020, 5:57 p.m. | Votes: 0 | [ VOTE ]

multiple accounts i.e confessions, whistle blower, advice etc. its easy to moderate posts

@crokkon | May 16, 2020, 9:12 a.m. | Votes: 2 | [ VOTE ]

.

@emrebeyler | May 16, 2020, 11:12 a.m. | Votes: 0 | [ VOTE ]

Thanks!

Let's see how this will work out. :) I'm also one of the curious parties.

@hedgeserv | May 16, 2020, 9:48 a.m. | Votes: 0 | [ VOTE ]

This is clever and I like it. Well done guys!

@yahialababidi | May 16, 2020, 12:02 p.m. | Votes: 0 | [ VOTE ]

How can one leave comments or read comments on something they post?

What about votes & payment?

Kinda confused how this works, but intrigued by the idea

@emrebeyler | May 16, 2020, 12:03 p.m. | Votes: 2 | [ VOTE ]

You're anonymous, so there is no payment. All posts created from the website has %25 beneficiary to steem.dao.

Leaving comments/Reading comments is a todo for the future. To comply with the hackathon deadline, this is the bare minimum functionality.

@yahialababidi | May 16, 2020, 12:17 p.m. | Votes: 0 | [ VOTE ]

Thanks, for your reply. It’s still a fun idea. People need a place to vent.
I read the post about the blank person & want to give them a hug, really.

Fuck reputation; honest is best.

@howo | May 16, 2020, 12:15 p.m. | Votes: 0 | [ VOTE ]

Cool idea, I like it a lot !

@bobskibob | May 16, 2020, 12:43 p.m. | Votes: 0 | [ VOTE ]

brilliant love this one

@ricecrypto | May 16, 2020, 2:24 p.m. | Votes: 0 | [ VOTE ]

Great idea!!!

@lineart2020 | May 16, 2020, 2:37 p.m. | Votes: 0 | [ VOTE ]

If a content will be under the comment section that not so many users look into, how can it expose something to public?

Free speech but buried elsewhere...

@acidyo | May 16, 2020, 2:55 p.m. | Votes: 0 | [ VOTE ]

Cool idea! When I first announced the "Ask the Hive" community I mentioned that one of the main reasons so many on Reddit use askreddit is the ease of creating a throwaway account to write something they wouldn't want connected with their identity or main account so I can see this having some usability for that community in the future. Looking forward to how it further evolves!

@skillz | May 16, 2020, 2:57 p.m. | Votes: 0 | [ VOTE ]

@emrebeyler Outstanding! Totally reblogged! 😎

@pipsgenius | May 16, 2020, 3:20 p.m. | Votes: 0 | [ VOTE ]

Great piece

@abrahan414 | May 16, 2020, 3:24 p.m. | Votes: 1 | [ VOTE ]

Esto se ve realmente bueno, fomentando la libre expresión.

@potta | May 16, 2020, 4:12 p.m. | Votes: 0 | [ VOTE ]

Is this really anonymous? Looks like you guys use Google Capcha?

@emrebeyler | May 16, 2020, 10:05 p.m. | Votes: 0 | [ VOTE ]

Yes, I regret I did that, but I literally implemented Recatpcha in 2 minutes. I needed something fast. Will be addressed in the next iterations.

@potta | May 17, 2020, 1:51 p.m. | Votes: 0 | [ VOTE ]

Ok, thank you!

@saracampero | May 16, 2020, 4:46 p.m. | Votes: 0 | [ VOTE ]

I find it an interesting application @emrebeyler. Surely many would like to comment anonymously on the things that happen every day. I will be testing it, thanks for your contribution it is a great help for the hive community.

@ronald78 | May 16, 2020, 4:56 p.m. | Votes: 0 | [ VOTE ]

..

@acromott | May 16, 2020, 5:19 p.m. | Votes: 0 | [ VOTE ]

Finally something awesome!! Hahah
Simple and fun!
Nice work😁🤙

@hedge-x | May 16, 2020, 6:13 p.m. | Votes: 0 | [ VOTE ]

Big need for this.

@tobetada | May 16, 2020, 6:25 p.m. | Votes: 0 | [ VOTE ]

we can't reply on posts?

@emrebeyler | May 16, 2020, 10:05 p.m. | Votes: 0 | [ VOTE ]

Not yet, but people do replies like re: old title

@waqasrizvi | May 16, 2020, 6:40 p.m. | Votes: 0 | [ VOTE ]

That's great
Keep it up

@joythewanderer | May 16, 2020, 8:05 p.m. | Votes: 0 | [ VOTE ]

good

@soyrosa | May 16, 2020, 8:41 p.m. | Votes: 0 | [ VOTE ]

NICE! I've seen people play with the idea but there was always the issue of 'keys to an account' involved so true anonimity was never achieved. Curious to see how it will be used :-) Thanks for adding something so niche to the chain, and thanks to '10 kisses' and Justine and Ruen for their work too :-)

@emrebeyler | May 16, 2020, 9:15 p.m. | Votes: 0 | [ VOTE ]

Thanks.

Yeah, true anonymity is a thing that hard to get. But still this web app provides one level of anonymity. So far I'm having fun reading the content. :D

@soyrosa | May 16, 2020, 9:31 p.m. | Votes: 0 | [ VOTE ]

I just read through all of 'em, lol! We'll definitely have fun with this one :D

@bala41288 | May 16, 2020, 8:42 p.m. | Votes: 0 | [ VOTE ]

Wow this is awesome. Let's see how it goes. 😀

@amahovac93 | May 16, 2020, 10:22 p.m. | Votes: 0 | [ VOTE ]

I like it very much, Hive will take the crypto world by storm!

@starkerz | May 16, 2020, 10:54 p.m. | Votes: 0 | [ VOTE ]

THIS! We are interested in using this in threespeak some how. Excited for this project going forwards! It might become the most used app on hive pretty quickly!

@kingscrown | May 17, 2020, 3:32 a.m. | Votes: 0 | [ VOTE ]

cant wait

@wagnertamanaha | May 17, 2020, 5:54 a.m. | Votes: 0 | [ VOTE ]

Great initiative, congratulations! I think if you add geolocation features it can repeat the huge success of anonymous messages apps like Whisper and Secret.ly (Wikipedia: Secret (app)) made years ago. I remember that sharing and knowing secrets and revelations from neighbours and colleagues were surprising and addictive. Now with blockchain and crypto additions it would be unbeatable. Keep safe, thanks and good luck again!

@belemo | May 17, 2020, 7:43 a.m. | Votes: 0 | [ VOTE ]

The idea is kind of cool but considering accounts are free and everything that's posted here appears on the blockchain forever, what's stopping someone from creating an Alt to ramble till thy kingdom come?

@lichtblick | May 17, 2020, 8:15 a.m. | Votes: 0 | [ VOTE ]

Cool and rehived :-)

@angel33 | May 17, 2020, 9:40 a.m. | Votes: 0 | [ VOTE ]

Nice idea

@klye | May 17, 2020, 12:03 p.m. | Votes: 0 | [ VOTE ]

Ah fuck yeah. Now I can call out whales for being hypocritical sociopaths without worrying about them fucking nuking my account..!

Granted it is kind of sad that we need a tool like this to be able to speak what is on our mind without having to be directly targeted by those that would attempt to do damage otherwise.

Great work here.

@emrebeyler | May 17, 2020, 12:32 p.m. | Votes: 0 | [ VOTE ]

Well, your style is unique, so I expect I can make a guess if you post there.

@klye | May 17, 2020, 12:34 p.m. | Votes: 0 | [ VOTE ]

If I drew MS-paint stuff it would give me away... XD

You got 1st vote in my opinion of the hackathon though.

Thanks for creating this service.

@maxwellelisha19 | May 17, 2020, 1:41 p.m. | Votes: 0 | [ VOTE ]

This is a high technical creativity

@emrebeyler | May 17, 2020, 5:13 p.m. | Votes: 0 | [ VOTE ]

Disagreed.

@maxwellelisha19 | May 17, 2020, 7:23 p.m. | Votes: 0 | [ VOTE ]

Your opinion is well respected

@gitplait | May 18, 2020, 9:16 a.m. | Votes: 0 | [ VOTE ]

Awesome!!! This is definitely a great work. The concept is unique, and the work is super clean. As usual, we find this work useful and we will feature this in our Gitplait-elites publication today.

You are an elite.

@chrisrice | March 19, 2021, 1:42 a.m. | Votes: 0 | [ VOTE ]

Is this project still alive?

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