How can someone post a short text anonymously?

December 16, 2019 12:47 PM

A friend has a short text (~500 words) that they would like to share with like-minded people without it getting tied back to them.

It's just this one piece, so they are not interested in an anonymous blog. It does not involve anything criminal, just an opinion piece that seeks to capture an experience that many people have but often have a hard time talking about, especially because discussing it openly can result in reprisals. Can you recommend a website where you can upload a text using an incognito browser, and get a URL that you can share that will stay good for a long while? Or is there a better method?

posted by anonymous to Technology (6 answers total)

This sounds like a good use for pastebin.
posted by jquinby at 12:53 PM on December 16, 2019 [3 favorites]

Pastebin should work for this, if you don't care about formatting. Just set "Paste exposure" to Unlisted so it won't get automatically added to the Public Pastes list.

How to pass along the URL without that getting potentially traced back to you is a trickier problem.
posted by theodolite at 12:53 PM on December 16, 2019 [2 favorites]

Put the text in a gif and upload to imgur?
posted by any portmanteau in a storm at 2:14 PM on December 16, 2019 [1 favorite]

Post it to txt.fyi using the Tor Browser.
posted by Bangaioh at 2:16 PM on December 16, 2019 [3 favorites]

Technicalities aside, there's a good chance the text can be traced back to them by writing style.
posted by Bangaioh at 2:20 PM on December 16, 2019 [2 favorites]

you could register an anonymous account on Reddit and post in a relevant sub-forum.
posted by jander03 at 8:19 PM on December 17, 2019 [1 favorite]