Anonymous chat rooms sound appealing until you are in one. Agyata pairs you 1:1 instead, so nobody is performing for an audience and there is no pile-on.
Two people, not thirty. Fewer users to perform for, fewer to hide behind.
A real-time room that exists only while both sides are connected.
No sign-up. Two-word handle. Not tied to a phone or email.
We made the choice deliberately. Here is why.
In a 30-person anonymous room, bad actors get cover and targets get surrounded. A 1:1 pairing strips that out by design — there is no audience to play to and no group to coordinate an attack.
A single text classifier on a 1:1 message stream is reliable. A group channel needs conversational context, relationship modeling, and more compute than is honest for a $0 infra budget.
In a group, a handle accumulates reputation within the room. In 1:1, every pair starts fresh. That is the point of anonymous chat.
Public anonymous rooms are extremely difficult to moderate without recording everything — which defeats the anonymity. We chose 1:1 pairing because it is safer, cheaper to moderate, and avoids group-dynamic abuse. Not ruled out forever; not planned for v1 or v1.1.
No. Each room is strictly 1:1. End the current room and re-queue to pair with someone new. Skip does the same thing in one tap.
Yes — both because fewer people hear what you say and because we can promise "nothing saved" credibly. A group chat that claimed "nothing saved" would be immediately suspect; in 1:1, it's literally true.
v1 has no interest tags or preferences — everyone pairs from a common queue. Soft preference weights land in v1.1.
Not in v1. The pairing is random by design. A "chat with this poster" feature is on the v1.1 list, invite-only from a confession card.