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[–]LarrySwinger2 7 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 2 fun -  (7 children)

[–]jw329[S] 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

It doesn't seem like they are updating the software anymore

[–]LarrySwinger2 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It still works, though.

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

u/JasonCarswell would also like to know

[–]JasonCarswell 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (2 children)

/u/jw329

Don't do a SaidIt site. The software will not last and doesn't have strong support. There's no future in it.

Do a Lemmy site instead. It's supported and you may join decentralized networks federated with others. https://Wolfballs.com is among the deplorables while the majority are woke (ie. https://Lemmy.ml).

If you can help/teach me how to set up 2 Lemmy instances I'd be grateful - one for 100% free speech (legal, no advocating violence, no child porn) and one for elevated discourse. Both would be managed and regulated by their respective communities, thus the admins only carry out the will of the group (ie. who to ban or invite to join, and/or develop the guides, rules, etc.). With these two, users would have the ability to filter out lowbrow content, or not.

If you can successfully build and admin these (keep track of your hours!) we (me and/or my local communities) would be happy to compensate you. Feel free to PM some of your experience or resume to me and/or /u/Shill-For-Freedom (co-founder of SaidIt and provides life support to its code), anonymized if you like, so we may assess and discuss. Currently I'd depend on my local folks for funding, but I'll likely be teaching animation soon which will bring in funds and I could kick things off independently without red tape.

If you want to expand beyond just forums see /s/Cassy and some wikis could use help, including https://Projex.Wiki, https://WikiSpooks.com, and https://InfoGalactic.com. Top of my own list is to get a federated Movim site up as a Facebook+Messenger replacement for Windsor's freedom fighters. Again this can network/share with others. Learning about security and privacy are among my top concerns - not for me but as a priority to protect the people of our freedom/prepper/resistance communities.

One of my dream goals is to have many indie-servers around Windsor all co-hosting platform networks - like a dozen Lemmy instances, a dozen Movim instances, PeerTubes, YaCy's, Mastodons, etc etc etc. (Ideally, we'd maintain a masterbox that we copy and set up the clones elsewhere to be custom tweaked remotely.) If my city of Windsor can host decentralized resources then other cities could too - and we could network with them as well, globally. Then when the corporatocracy tries to stomp one of us the network lives on, rather than them taking down a single point of failure website.

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

STOP FUCKING DOXING ME. I'm not involved with saidit or this code at all. That's why it's not a maintained fucking codebase.

[–]JasonCarswell 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I'm not involved with saidit or this code at all.

Anymore, it seems.
I didn't get your memo.

[–]LarrySwinger2 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Hey usher, how are you? I don't see you around in chat anymore.

[–]la_cues 7 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

A more "modern" take

https://join-lemmy.org/

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy


Actual *ddit code

https://github.com/reddit-archive/reddit

https://github.com/reddit-archive/reddit/wiki/reddit-install-script-for-Ubuntu


or follow a video tutorial, it's one of the more common types of sites people want to build when they first start webdev

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=simple+programming+build+a+reddit+clone+tutorial

god spede

[–]jw329[S] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

lemmy looks like it has potential. I'm not a big fan of the UI but I'll have to give it a try.

It seems the saidit script on github does not get updated anymore. Kinda sad

[–][deleted] 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Well, the easiest thing to do would be take the source code for a site like this, then deploy it yourself.

The code for this site is open source and available for use, many others too

https://github.com/libertysoft3/saidit

If you are talking about coding your own from scratch, you would be looking at investing serious time in learning programming fundamentals before you could do something like a website. There are free online courses if that is something you are interested in, but it will take many courses before you could code your own saidit, and is not something I would suggest unless you are really interested in programming.

If you just want to run a posting site like this yourself, I'd suggest the first method

[–]jw329[S] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

I wish i could write my own but it would take a least 5 years.

I checked out your link. It doesn't seem like they are updating the software anymore

[–]Vulptex 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

If you have no experience at all it's going to take a while. Programming isn't too hard, but it still takes time (though you may not need it if you don't want to change anything). What's more frustrating is networking, and getting an actual server running, and securely. Installing the software needed to run the site is also frustrating and took me many attempts to get it working.

You'll need to have some practice before just jumping into running a full website. Use a VM so you don't mess up your actual computer.

[–]panel30 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

I don't know much about how to do this. But if you haven't started already maybe start by looking at the source code? I think there are instructions in there of some sort at least.

edit: maybe relevant older post