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[–]JasonCarswell 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I love SaidIt despite its limits, but it's not enough so far as hosting media and files and archiving them. Plus it's a powerful wiki. While I intent to eventually publish my work beyond SaidIt in a graphic novel for the screenplay/storyboard story, and on all the video platforms for video, including PeerTube, if there's a good host for streaming maybe we can host our little show too.

I'm hoping I can do something akin to what Wikipedia does in that they lean as much as possible on Wikimedia Commons for completely copyright-free content. I have some big issues with WP WC and that whole thing so I haven't uploaded my entire portfolio yet, and I'm not sure I want to release all copyrights either. And last time I looked for free image hosting that allowed you to retain 100% rights of your own work I came up empty and very very despondent. I'm hoping an alternative may come to light, or we might become it. I figure we'll have to monitor the hell out of the content to avoid getting slapped silly by copyright infringement.

I don't feel tech savvy confident enough to push limits by adopting an open source VPN or making a public seed box as much as I'd love to. I'll torrent myself groups get noticed. Beyond that, I want to play by all their rules until I'm forced to break them after they change them.

CSS doesn't apply to Wikipedia. I knew basic CSS from over a dozen years ago. Reddit CSS is different but not too much. The biggest hurdle is trying to learn the Reddit system and funky nomenclature.

I just had an epiphany of sorts. WP has a community of sorts that takes place on the talk pages, where they discuss the content of the main page. Or the history page of an article features comments (I'm the absolute worst for not filling them out). Anyway, who needs that kind of community when SaidIt is a superior community forum? That could potentially leave the talk pages empty (like most of InfoGalactic's discussion pages (just renamed)). I've always said that Wikipedia needs more tabs for other content, ie. fringe, fancruft, alt views, opinions, essays, etc. Then again, I think there's also ways to add more tabs anyway, so maybe this is all just moot.

WordPress is meh at best. I'd rather custom build my own site. And I don't to reinvent a wheel when I can be inventing new space travel ideas, illustrating them, publishing them, and maybe one day finally someone might make it into a movie. Hell, people are sick of crappy corporate media, lazy writing, pablum ideas, and manipulative propaganda. If ever there was a time for this story... Anyway, WordPress censors their own hosted content now (Jay Dyer and others), and if I wanted easy blandness then I'd just publish on Steemit, Minds, etc. - and I will anyway, to earn the crypto if I can.

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Yeah WordPress.com are bastards, I mean self-hosting the open source version. It's not that bad self-hosting stuff, especially when you have people you can reach out to for help.

You can do custom CSS on mediawiki if you are hosting it, probably not through a convenient interface tho.

Anyway, it sounds like you know what you want. The content will speak for itself on whichever platforms it ends up on.