Taking subscriber questions without exposing your account
A link instead of DMs: how one-way anonymity works and why the sender must never be promised it.
A channel author wants questions but does not want fifteen hundred people knowing their personal account. A persona link solves it.
How it works
You create a card — name, description, avatar — and get a link. A reader opens it, writes a message, and it arrives in your bot chat. Your account stays invisible: the person is talking to the card.
You reply in the same chat, and the answer reaches the reader from that same card.
Anonymity is one-way
This is worth saying plainly: only the link owner is hidden. You see who wrote to you — otherwise you could neither block a rude sender nor continue the conversation.
Services promising anonymity to the sender put people in danger: technically Telegram passes the sender to the bot anyway. Being honest beats explaining later.
What to set up first
A greeting. The first message of every new conversation — say what you welcome and how fast you answer.
A word filter. What you never want to read is stopped before you; the sender sees a polite refusal.
A switch. Going on holiday — turn accepting off, and the link says the persona is temporarily closed.
Several cards
One for content questions, one for partnerships, one for complaints. Different links, separate streams, one app. See the incognito messages page.