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[–]Chipit 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

Why would you say it's deliberate? It sounds like someone who just got banned and went somewhere else. That's the problem, if we don't populate with normies somehow, it's going to be ALL people who got banned. That's not good.

[–]magnora7 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Sometimes I think it's deliberate, other times not.

it's going to be ALL people who got banned. That's not good.

Yeah this is kind of the core issue with post-reddit sites. I think a lot of people are just waiting for reddit to finally fall

[–]Chipit 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

It's going to be years for that to happen, if it ever does. Reddit has tons of non-political content that provides a lot of value. Tons of subs about specific video games. Moms chat. Health advice. Financial planning that isn't "buy bitcoin".

That's what saidit needs. But I don't know how to get it.

[–]magnora7 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I think you might be right. Digg.com had a very sudden collapse, but the subreddit system of reddit compartmentalizes the damage quite nicely so the the site as a whole has persisted much longer than digg ever did. I have always said that the moment they removed old.reddit.com (thus forcing the new site design on everyone) is when the big influx will happen, but they seem to maybe not ever be removing old.reddit.com, which is a surprise to me. Perhaps they're smart enough to know what problems it will cause. I just wonder if the investors of their 2020 IPO will foolishly demand it though, I could see that causing a collapse of sorts.

But the core issue is that if you have a nice hobby community that has 5000 people, and another one that has 100 people, and they're of equal quality, people will almost always choose the 5000 people one. I don't know any way we can reasonably hope to get those people to use saidit. It's kind of a "100th monkey effect" where things become popular because they're popular. It's a chicken and egg thing. We'll get there someday, but there really isn't an easy solution to getting more "normie" users other than simply being popular. And we're slowly getting more popular, so if we can just avoid the culture falling to some brand of extremism, we will keep growing. However walking the line between "avoiding extremism" and "censoring people's opinions" is very thin, and furthermore deliberately clouded by those spreading extremism. How exactly that line is drawn is what ends up determining the character of every anonymous social media website.

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

That is a fantastic thing for a new guy to read. Thanks for putting it out there, both of you.

I'm unsure how to participate here since I typically always went niche on reddit. But...... there are no niches yet. So if I'm going to take the plunge 100% it's more a matter of being part of the larger subs, watching and waiting, and supporting niche when it comes.

I think I'm normal........

[–]magnora7 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Welcome! It is a medium-sized community right now so the best thing is to check out the 'all' page https://saidit.net/s/all

And you can even mute subs from that list to tailor it to what you want. Right now I think that's the best way to browse the site. Let me know if you ever have any questions