I hate what Reddit has become and I wish for Saidit to be a platform where people can discuss interests, hobbies, and things without politics or agendas.

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[–]kokolokoNightcrawler 17 insightful - 4 fun17 insightful - 3 fun18 insightful - 4 fun -  (11 children)

In my experience, having been on Youtube since 2007, what Susan Jewcicky did to YT comments is way, way more damaging than Reddit turning batshit commie. So many more people used the commenting system under videos, and do it till this day, but that witch started disappearing comments and reply notices and started manipulating what's popular vs what's "socially justified". Not to mention other YT manipulation involving creators. Reddit, I personally never used much because there are so many message boards out there to choose from that there is no need to tie yourself to just one.

[–]Jesus-Christ 12 insightful - 5 fun12 insightful - 4 fun13 insightful - 5 fun -  (5 children)

I'm surprised I haven't seen anyone mentioning this, I haven't been receiving notifications from comment threads on YouTube for like two years now. 8 times out of 10 when I make a comment, and refresh the thread, it suddenly dissapears too. It's especially annoying when some retard is harping on you, and you can't even justify your point or bite back because YouTube just decides to delete your comment almost instantly. The platform is just garbage, for both users and creators. The only vids I see are trending these days are those shitty late-night talk show hosts, or incredibly boring and PC shite. YouTube fucks you in the ass all the time, it's just a shame there isn't a better and sustainable alternative.

[–]kokolokoNightcrawler 8 insightful - 3 fun8 insightful - 2 fun9 insightful - 3 fun -  (4 children)

The server costs for video sharing are still abysmal, I think that is the main reason there aren't many great alternatives. Someone could just copy paste YT layout circa 2008-9 and it would be way more popular than the original YT, which would go into the sunset with other premium content sharing sites.

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    [–]JasonCarswell 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (2 children)

    PeerTube is federated and d3rr, cohost of SaidIt, has one named /s/DownTheMemoryHole.

    It's all I can do to buy a new hard drive every month or few to archive all the stuff I come across. I have dozens of drives full to share, but no server, so that's a problem.

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      [–]JasonCarswell 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

      GoDaddy is one thing with a small site.

      WikiSpooks is only 5.7gb : https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Wikispooks:Site_Backup

      And apparently SaidIt is similar in size.

      100+ terabytes of video is another. It's not even raided.

      I wouldn't object to a legit authentic revolution, but all revolutions through history have been infiltrated, subverted, and become just more of the same.

      The goal would be to keep information alive and uncensored.

      If someone dropped a million dollars or more in my lap I would...

      1) Buy a huge empty warehouse and form a workers coop and set it up for artists, makers, coders, gardens, and such.

      2) Set up an opensource decentralized alternative to YouTube/BitChute, private at first, establish the decentralization stuff online AND offline, as well as the community for ratings and such. Silk Road had a ratings system for determining who was selling good drugs and who was a rip off. Like that we could determine who was sharing properly and who wasn't - not just online sharing but copying entire hard drives and snail-mailing them. IPFS could verify the files are legit. Torrents could share them online. Etc.

      3) Finish developing and produce my 6 screenplay projects.

      4) Get some land in the country and build an earthship for people to take time off and or work there. One urban and one rural. The Earthship would need to be prepared to build more Earthships, some green houses, and of course some more warehouses/shops.

      I can dream.

      Of course "they" would try to stomp it.

      [–]A_person 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

      But wouldn't it just be nice to have a steady forum for humanity to discuss in. Diluting the platforms reduces communication.

      [–]kokolokoNightcrawler 7 insightful - 3 fun7 insightful - 2 fun8 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

      On the contrary, we need more competition and less monopolizing of dialogue

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

      Youtube comments were always terrible. What really damaged conversation was taking away video replies. No one reads a wall of text but you can say it all in a 5 min video and people would watch it. It also take more effort to create a video response so it seriously limited the ability for trolls and shills to play their games.

      [–]Crad 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

      What happened to YT comment section exactly? I cant really remember how it was back in pre 2010.

      [–]kokolokoNightcrawler 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

      It is completely borked. You could converse on Youtube as freely and reliably as you can here now on Saidit. Today, their algos hide/mute comments, hide replies, manipulate downvotes vs upvotes and so on. Basically, the style of manipulation they enforce upon creators. Social engineering at its worst.