I'm a leftist but I'm here

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

ProTip: Mulitsubs - just view your favourite subs in one list.

https://saidit.net/s/SaidIt/wiki/multisubs

After magnora7 had a meltdown and threatened to ban me I abandoned all my SaidIt projects for about half a year, and now it's coming on a year for some, including this project to categorize and multisub all the SaidIt subs for people convenience, at least as a starting point, from which they could copy and customize their own.

IMO, SaidIt has a golden opportunity to NOT be like Reddit and people should embrace trying new alternatives, even if they fail and return to the norms.

I agree with the old-forum idea too.

Centralized power is the enemy, because power corrupts absolutely. Aside from that meltdown for whatever reasons, I have yet to see any proof that SaidIt is compromised. Even still it does concern me that it's not a decentralized platform and the public has no easy backup, like WikiSpooks offers. There is no shortage of shit out there, and us SaidIt worker ants collect all the good stuff and bring it here - filtering the good from bad and aggregating. Call it centralizing or collecting or selecting or whatever if you want, and while information is power in a way, it's not raw power like authority or money. Information can battle information and while there may be winners and losers, there's also diverse views at odds that can still be perfectly valid yet contradictory. Authority cannot co-exist with other authority or it becomes a tribal war by economic, military, or other means like spy craft, psyops, propaganda, and 5th generation warfare.

I agree that our words like "decentralize" are limited. I'd prefer "distributed" but that has too many other connotations too.

I make no promises for prompt replies. Sometimes I do and sometimes not. The weekend is slow and instead of dueling wits in discussions I'd been doing other stuff - so my messages are still backed up, but not continuing to pile higher. In short, I welcome the dialogue. In the future I may be busy, but not distracted or annoyed - unless you say absurd things.