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[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

we just need some more people

In a hundred thousand users there'd be a hundred thousand people who make reddit suck.

[–]magnora7[S] 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

Yeah I've only tried to get people from reddit to saidit, but the well is running dry as there's fewer and fewer real humans or openminded people left on reddit. Maybe finding people from other websites to come to saidit would be fruitful.

[–][deleted] 6 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

I think what you have here is already pretty special. It would be nice to have more people, but there's a certain caliber of person that has filtered through here, I don't think exists readily out there. But casting the net wide is good, what about places like Ars Technica?

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

Yes maybe ars technica and maybe hackernews, but I think 99% of those users would think there's not enough intellectual content on the front page, or it's too politically charged in one direction. But still worth a shot, there's probably people on those sites who are tired of the limitations there.

[–]raven9 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

The trouble is if saidit was to become a major player in the information wars, you would be targetted by the same troll farms and corporate shills that has made reddit so toxic.

[–]magnora7[S] 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

We already are, brother. As is every social media website that makes it in to the top 100,000 websites. You get too big, you're on the attack list. That's how it goes. That's why ruqqus failed, and voat failed, and so many others...

Not sure who is running these groups, but they're absolutely swamping the entire internet. Compared to traditional advertising and PR campaigns, it's not expensive to pay a room of college students $12/hr to post misinformation 8 hours a day. So there are likely very many governments and corporations who are simultaneously doing this.

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

According to the mole who got into one of their chat servers, they make $14/hour. Probably more by now. The hard left got a shit-ton of cash dumped on it in 2020, and that's how they employ all of these people.