everything you directed us to look at was thought provoking and has us re-thinking a couple things.

We have much more to discuss too, after 9/11. What was most thought-provoking what was worth re-thinking?

As far as accepting other viewpoints, absolutely.

More food for thought: /s/debatealtright/comments/889m/what_are_the_alternatives_to_sdebatealtright/

We believe that there is a demand for a sort of "algorithm free" social media where if you sort by new you literally just get all the content sorted by new and not try to interfere with what the user discovers.

IMO this is good, but could be better... Imagine if the DB and algorithms were 100% transparent and you could write your own expressions, share them, and make GUIs for them so that non-coders and normies could set their own preferences (within site-wide and sub-wide limits) and search engines. IMO "smart" A.I. is always foiled by incessant need for top-down control. We don't need smart or censored or controlled - we just need accurate analysis and stats to work with.

Having said that it will be easy for a user to tailor the experience in such a way that he/she only sees content he/she wants.

IMO, this will create bubbles and I think a solution would be to keep 10% random content (or whatever number determined by open transparent community discussions) in order to help make sure the content they don't want is still unwanted and that it is still classified/meta-tagged/labelled properly. This is what I meant by "site-wide limits" and if you get 90% of the content you want (for free) then you pay the price of sorting 10% random stuff.

No ads, signup with Ethereum address, communities, vote to ban with crypto etc. We run everything in Docker containers and want to make this as available as possible.

I'm not against ads/marketing - if done properly^*. In fact, I have a Zillion Dollar Idea™ that I haven't shared yet related to interactive marketing that is customizable on MANY levels (a big list) and could be better utilized if something like MetaVote™ existed to use with it. *Ads and this ZDI are entirely separate discussions.

Around January or March or so (very possibly by /u/panzerF) a universal login thing was posted (I looked but couldn't find it) as an alternative replacement to all pervasive Google/Facebook login authentication (not to be confused with authorization to spy) that seemed promising, if true as sold. This would be great for anons to carry their reputations to otherwise unconnected sites.

"Vote to ban with crypto" sounds like an invitation to be bought out.

Lemmy is run in Docker. I don't know much about it other than it has pros and cons like anything. Care to share some of your ideas on Docker?

As far as lists go, we will have a voting system where you pay with crypto ( a tiny fraction of gas ) to vote and everything will be tied to your public Ether address. This aims to allow fair voting combined with our anti-bot software so that the only way you won't get your content seen is if enough people genuinely don't want to hear it. This is especially complex and most of our time is spent writing tests but it needs to be implemented in a fair provable way.

This sounds interesting. We have reservations about embedding crypto for a variety of reasons. Besides technical hurdles and extreme complexity (with blind trust), we don't want to give authorities another excuse to stomp us, we don't want to be responsible or corruptible like an exchange or bank, we don't want to be limited to a single crypto, and we would hope to attract more coders to build custom features, widgets, and browser addons that can be folded into the Lemmy framework if it becomes standard and popular. This keeps the Lemmy focus on making the Lemmy framework better. These and other aspects can be built in parallel, and if one of many table legs falters, the platform remains.

We will definitely be around and when the time is right we will make a full post. Thank you for everything.

Thanks for explaining and I look forward to your post(s) and future interactions.

FYI, I'm going to be busy until 9/11 working on some video projects.