Proposal for how Saidit could actually develop the early environment of reddit, and become a valid reddit-alternative.

JasonCarswell · 2021-01-16T13:39:54+00:00

Poor child, some of us have more on our minds than sex. Some of us are old too. Some of us have had more sex than any of you ever would - and that's not even considering the COVID nonsense. That said, I'm newly 50, not dead yet, and look forward to more sex.

Everytime you learn a new word in the dictionary you can stick it up my /s/Terminology.

You make subs your way. And I'll make subs my way. And M7 can choke on his arbitrary limits for show. For the integrity of SaidIt however, I will respect the community and the limits. I tried years ago to get some democratic organization into the subs, but now there's nothing but orders of magnitude more chaos, as expected, due to shitty "leadership". There was potential to be better and be a better research source. SaitIt is coasting without ambition, goals, or a future.

JasonCarswell · 2021-01-16T13:26:58+00:00

No.

But sort of.

We need to /s/DecentralizeAllThings and /s/FederateAllMedia.

DECENTRALIZE to spread out and to never be taken down together.

FEDERATE to interact "centrally" in a contiguous cooperative manner, mirroring all social media, media, and activity - despite being on different platforms.

In this way, instead of the center being a single site (corporate or not), the "center" is wherever you are, like being on the Internet.

IMO, MediaWiki might be among the best options out there. It's exceptionally supported, very robust, easy to install, and of course it could manage all the media you can throw at it.

MediaWiki would also be a terrific forum base, but I see 3 problems with embracing MediaWiki for Reddit-clone communities. 1) The site layout/format would need an overhaul to redesign it to appear and function like a Reddit-type forum, including permissions and voting/points(/and crypto?) systems. 2) Federating. 3) A minor issue - the markdown code is different, though easy enough to adapt to - plus they have formatting aids. If someone or some folks could address those two major issues I'm certain they'd have a huge hit on their hands and many sites might migrate.

https://DuckDuckGo.com/?q=MediaWiki+layout+redesign
https://DuckDuckGo.com/?q=MediaWiki+federating

Side note:
/u/d3rr, I've considered creating /s/Fediverse for some time, but have hesitated as I am no expert, don't keep dialed in, don't have sources for Fediverse news, and figure it's redundant to #DecentralizeAllThings (which I now need to make clearly distinct from AltTech and Crypto). Now that I just came up with a new #FederateAllMedia, I wonder if it's better and/or more compelling - or if making a new sub is even a good idea at all. Thoughts?

JasonCarswell · 2021-01-16T12:28:56+00:00

Everyone fucking knows what a straw man is, except apparently you.

It's not a straw man because not everyone who opposes low quality and far-right content is a leftist, nor are all leftists are extreme, twats, or ignorant of the far-right.

Everyone fucking knows the SJWs and BLM are the insane extremist of the corporate Democrat Left™.

Everyone fucking knows the cancer of Reddit is their corporate Democrat Left™ echo chamber.

Everyone fucking knows the progressive left has been infiltrated and disenfranchised, like the right.

There are distinctions among the left and center and others outside your echo chamber.

Everyone fucking knows, except apparently you.

Don't be daft to the extreme.

JasonCarswell · 2021-01-16T06:49:12+00:00

I would agree. But that's coding. SaidIt is coasting.

JasonCarswell · 2021-01-16T04:05:10+00:00

Saved

JasonCarswell · 2021-01-16T03:30:37+00:00

Nothing in what they say is indicative of power mods.

What is wrong with the tools? I'm guessing it's how you use/abuse them.

You don't speak for me.

JasonCarswell · 2021-01-16T03:28:26+00:00

We need to welcome the authentic old-Left too, which no longer is represented.

JasonCarswell · 2021-01-16T03:27:16+00:00

Lame and low tier. Not all leftsts are SJWs. SaidIt was started to be anti-extremes.

JasonCarswell · 2021-01-16T03:23:15+00:00

SaidIt has had absolutely shitty leadership on the sub-creation front since before I arrived, despite my pleading for order. Sure M7 can put a stupid arbitrary top limit of 40 for the illusion of no "power-mods", but there's hundreds or thousands of subs now.

I mod 40 subs by not moderating them. I have 10 or 20 more that I'd like to create, but /u/magnora7 established the arbitrary limit of 40 max, even though I'd done absolutely nothing wrong to demand such a limit - and wrong-doing should be the real limit. I understand why there's a self-conscious limit on SaidiIt for tamping down power-mods that Reddit culture frowns on yet somehow overlooks - but this isn't Reddit, and I'm not a power-mod.

Empty subs, IMO, should be erased and/or unmodded after a month - including mine. Unmoderated subs, if you can measure that, a few.

If I was on top of my game I'd have a "MySubs" multisub with all my subs to check on the regular. I've made lots of multisubs, yet don't use any. That's on me. I still check a few times a year.

I didn't come here from Reddit and have never considered myself a Redditor. I've never given a shit about Reddit. I came here as a truth-seeker.

JasonCarswell · 2021-01-15T06:30:36+00:00

I may have to retract part of what I said.

I don't pay attention to the drama of SaidIt nor know who is or isn't allowed on /s/all. I was informed that /s/DebateAltRight wasn't formerly on /s/all for some reason(s) and that it's been on /s/all for a while without notice nor nuisance. I also haven't been keeping tabs on the content of the sub. Perhaps M7 is actually very sensitive about Holocaust content for whatever reasons. Perhaps not. He plays it all close to his chest. We may never know.

The rest I stand by. Regardless of which sub, post title, or topic, these conversations have come up before and will again.

JasonCarswell · 2021-01-15T05:17:33+00:00