Anonymous Social Platform

Enforcing accountability without collecting personal identity, while preserving anonymous participation.

Most social platforms rely on identity as the foundation for moderation, trust, and accountability. Remove accounts, and you also remove the usual levers for control: bans, reputation, and history.

The challenge was to design a social system where participation is anonymous by default, but the platform does not immediately collapse into spam, harassment, or low-quality noise.

The system had to assume adversarial behavior from day one, not as an edge case.

The core focus was anti-abuse without identity.

This centered on:

• Device-linked, non-identifying accounts with split public and private handles
• Rate limiting and behavior analysis tied to usage patterns, not user profiles
• Temporary trust signals that decay over time rather than permanent reputation
• Visibility-based enforcement that limits reach instead of issuing hard bans

The design deliberately avoided permanent bans or explicit user punishment in favor of reducing the impact of bad actors.

Demonstrates the ability to design systems for adversarial environments where traditional assumptions do not apply.

Shows comfort reasoning about abuse vectors, tradeoffs between privacy and control, and building moderation mechanisms that operate without surveillance or long-term identity tracking.