Copying content from SaidIt to Notabug is way easier than the reverse because nab has always been designed with this sort of decentralization in mind. Topics in nab are cheap so organizing saidit subs is easy. Doing the reverse is not something we’ve figured out.

Only public data is copied from saidit, my bot doesn’t even log in to saidit right now. Saidit accounts will not work on nab, all the saidit posts come from a single bot like account on nab.

We’d all like to find a way to directly copy content into saidit (because feature wise saidit is way further along) but haven’t come up with a solid approach that doesn’t suck. So the plan is for saidit to run a nab peer on a sub domain soonish. This will replicate all the nab content there, including the saidit mirror. It will also allow nab logins to work on that sub domain.

If someone set up another saidit/reddit based site I could make the bot ingest that into notabug, or someone else could make a bot to do so (though they would run into rate limits)

Votes are not transferred mainly because keeping that up to date would be difficult, but also the voting paradigms are quite different.

The planned nab sub domain on saidit would do 2 way synchronization of content with notabug.io you could post on either and have it show up on both when it’s ready.

Saidit is one of the best reddit alternatives in the here and now (because it is Reddit with better admins/policy for the most part)

Nab is aiming to secure free speech on the net for the future through radical decentralization and empowerment of the individual. It will take time to reach the level of feature richness and convenience as SaidIt, but my hope is that it can and will eventually become a platform that can power multiple disparate communities with their own policies and character in a way that no single authority can stop.

Federation is only one of the first steps here, the long term plan for nab is to be provisioned via in-browser p2p with webrtc to reduce the reliance on central servers.

Think BitTorrent for discussion boards as envisioned in the “Ender’s Game” series that’s what I want to build