How hard is it to run my own SaidIt clone?

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[–]JasonCarswell 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

regarding saidit and it's way of presenting the various conspiracies is that it seems that you deliver information overload.

I couldn't agree more. I also feel like they had a golden opportunity that was lost over a year ago: to lay down some rules about creating new subs, organizing them with intention, and even the nitty-gritty nomenclature. Tildes is very organized. Organizing the topics and communities certainly wouldn't have solved the incoming torrent of info, but might have helped on many levels. Granted, I came from Wikipedia where they over do their obsessive organizing and censorship, but there has to be a happy medium somewhere.

As far as curation goes, there really is none. Each topic, community, and/or conspiracy theory might do with some fundamental introductions, organization, etc to guide noobies, normies, etc. That's a lot of work, not to mention volunteer work - and most here came to read or rant. I recently posted in a private club an expansive secondary filtration idea that could help better steer SaidIt's top posts (leaving the rest to continue as they like) but it got zero notice, not surprisingly. Thus, I no longer have hope for "elevating" SaidIt's direction via a white hat community.

Mob rules here, and I blame that on the deeply ingrained Reddit culture that spills over here, the admins limited resources and unwillingness to create a "new and improved" different culture, and of course all the Reddit refugees who simply want more of the same without censorship, the majority of who'd likely not care to learn new rules/guides.

May 22 is 10 years for WikiSpooks where I also intend to spend more time and dev projects (more distractions).

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

    Thank you. I try to be pleasant, patient, and compassionate to all, but I'm far from perfect.

    Yes, WikiSpooks is a 10 year old clusterfuck. 25,000 articles apparently reached recently. Not all deep. But there is great potential there, and it's already great in many realms. It's not my project, but I believe in it, as with SaidIt, for deep uncensored truth-seeking, now more than ever as the capitalist-communist fusion of globalist Zionist totalitarianism has us all on lock step lock down. I'm not a researcher but I have ideas on how to try to improve each community and will try to foster overlap in a variety of smaller projects.

    Worth noting, WikiSpooks certainly doesn't have a fraction of the editors like Wikipedia, but with what they do have, it's quite impressive. WikiSpooks uses a semantic code thing that is more advanced that what Wikipedia currently has (and though WikiData is a monster clusterfuck, it is already bleeding over into the other sister projects and will soon be profoundly powerful - if only there wasn't the censorship).

    Thank you for your generous offer. I don't code. However, I'm quite sure the admin of WikiSpooks, /u/Robin, another pleasant human, would be very obliged for any assistance.

    Good luck with the trading. I might consider investing (or buying my book wishlist, or a solid server) but I am among those who scrapes by from month to month. I am poor but I am free and unburdened.

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

      I appreciate the sentiment but I'm not looking for a boss.

      My advice: forget the limo and bling. Get an RV or better... Get big chunk of land in the country for your fortress / castle / dream home / Earthship / whatever. Put up fences or cameras and you won't need so much staff. Instead of drivers get a chef, gardener, and production manager to set up your own greenhouses, aquaponics, fiber, servers, etc. and have the world delivered to you. Avoid the city IF you can afford it.

      If you lose yourself in ego you'll end up having earned nothing and be perpetually seeking meaning and fulfillment. Limos are very limited and aren't practical beyond rides to the airport. RVs are mobile homes, offices, recreation, etc etc etc. AND you can carry several bikes (motor or mountain), not to mention store defenses on board.