How pen names work

Sahat: talk under a pen name. A different name in every square, kept apart from your profile. No ads. No AI features. Illegal content isn't allowed.

One pen name per Saha

Each Saha gives you a different pseudonymous pen name. Other members and the public can't link your pen names to your profile or to each other. Nadeemi can link a pen name to an account only for illegal content, child safety or a valid legal order. Every lookup is logged and counted on the transparency page.

What Nadeemi still knows

• Which account holds which pen names (kept as a sealed record, opened only as described above).
• When you post, and how each pen name voted.
• Whether your account has the trial or a Pass.

Public Sahat are public: anyone can read the posts, like public posts. Cloudflare, which runs our servers, sees IP addresses. We don't store IP addresses with Sahat posts; rate limits use a code that changes every day.

Good to know

A pen name hides your real name from other members. Your writing style and posting times can still give you away to people who know you, so only post what you are happy to have linked to you.

Legal orders

We answer valid legal orders with what we hold: the sealed link, the account number and Pass status. If an order from one country covers speech that is lawful elsewhere, we withhold that one item in that country only, log it, and count it on the transparency page. We never use tricks to get around blocking.

Who can do what

• Everyone: read public Sahat (Sensitive ones only inside the app, by choice).
• Trial and Pass: start threads, reply, vote, create a Saha.
• Guests (after the trial, without a Pass): read, save, report, and write up to 3 replies a day in Sahat whose moderators allow it.
• New accounts solve a short puzzle on the device before posting, to slow down spam. Votes from brand-new pen names start counting after 24 hours.

No ads. No AI features.

Nadeemi has no AI features. An AI assistant helps the team sort public reports; private messages are never sent to it. Team posts drafted with AI help say so. Founding moderators get a free Pass while they actively moderate, and this is shown on the Saha.

Last checked: 2026-11-09