FreedIt, take 3

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[–]JasonCarswell 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

You're still dependent on and waiting for a programmer - so I hope it does but I don't expect it to fly.

IMO you could start it in Lemmy or SaidIt and just use that until you build your pipe dream. Then you can port over the database or whatever then.

Before this SaidIt forum-slides into the gutter permanently, we need a free-speech site to exile/babysit the trolls.

I have a proposal:
We set up a Lemmy instance on our VPS within Docker. It can be administrated and managed by you, or our SaidIt community, or whatever new FreedIt community arises. It would use the FreedIt.com you bought until you have your new forum running, at which point you can migrate the database and the domain name to your new forum.

From what I understand, except for the decentralization bit, Lemmy is a much simpler forum, and thus a simpler database. I'm guessing it would be easier to port than SaidIt with subs, wikis, and other stuff.

With a free-speech troll farm up and running, we could then go about repairing SaidIt. Assuming we can even get /u/magnora7 to the discussion table, much less manage anything around here.

Maybe it would be better to just start fresh. Regardless, it would be smart to set up another instance as backup for SaidIt as well anyway.

[–]fschmidt[S] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

I don't have experience with Lemmy. Have you used it enough to judge that it is a really usable? If yes, then I will look at it this weekend.

If Lemmy is usable and you manage to get an instance of Lemmy up and running, then I would be glad to transfer the FreedIt domain to you so you can use it. If you do crowdfunding then I will contribute once it is working.

I think SaidIt is a lost cause. It will never be fixed.

[–]JasonCarswell 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

I don't have experience with Lemmy. Have you used it enough to judge that it is a really usable?

Count the established operational instances. It's not fancy (yet), but it works - and there's a big enough support team improving it.

People complain about so many Left Lemmy sites, but few (some exist) are bothering to make Right or Centrist sites. If you get a hang of it you can help others to set up theirs too. I'd like a couple, if for no other purpose than to co-archive and backup other sites. The more of us there are, the harder we are to squash.

I won't say no to donations, and eventually I'll even try to make it easy to give (the SaidIt footer is sad), and all money is useful, but that's never been a high priority for me.

[–]fschmidt[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

https://wolfballs.com/home/data_type/Post/listing_type/All/sort/Active/page/1

https://lemmy.ml/home/data_type/Post/listing_type/All/sort/Active/page/1

Why don't I see shared threads? I thought this is supposed to be decentralized.