I am proud to announce Saidit and Notabug.io have formed a decentralized federation, mirroring each other's data in real-time. Announcing the DFF: Decentralized Forum Federation

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[–]Orangutan 16 insightful - 4 fun16 insightful - 3 fun17 insightful - 4 fun -  (7 children)

Dude, this sounds pretty cool. Thanks to all involved.

https://www.patreon.com/SaidIt

https://www.notabug.io/

[–]magnora7[S] 20 insightful - 4 fun20 insightful - 3 fun21 insightful - 4 fun -  (6 children)

The best part about it, is that if hypothetically saidit and the admins were to all disappear one day, someone could simply take the saidit open-source code from github, and slap in the saidit database stored on notabug, and then saidit would come back to life.

So hopefully we've given others the tools to be able to re-create this ecosystem, should it ever disappear. And same with notabug, which now has the same functionality.

Not to be too grand about it, but I'm trying to think about saidit existing as a community platform 100 years from now, and stuff like this is how such a long-term roadmap might be feasible. This level of redundancy, and the ability to pass along information and software between websites in a publicly-viewable way, potentially opens quite a few doors for both saidit and notabug in the long-term.

And helps keep information alive outside of just one website, so it can last on the internet for longer than just that website's lifespan. This could make information more available to future generations.

It's exciting!

[–]Orangutan 14 insightful - 3 fun14 insightful - 2 fun15 insightful - 3 fun -  (5 children)

De-centralization, very interesting concept that probably will do a lot of good going forward. Thanks for implementing this safety gaps or whatever they are called. The internet and power of this type of social media can not be overstated, evident by the censorship tactics in place and loss of so many comment sections over the years on so many websites. Peace man. Wishing and hoping for all the best.

[–]magnora7[S] 7 insightful - 3 fun7 insightful - 2 fun8 insightful - 3 fun -  (4 children)

Yes exactly, this is a way to de-centralize.

And since we're doing it cooperatively across two different separate websites, it's also a federation.

Decentralized federations do indeed seem like the way forward, for information longevity.

Thank you for your kind words! The future looks bright.

[–]theoracle 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

federations do indeed seem like the way forwar

It's like an open backup. It's commendable you are thinking so far forward. I don't think the basic platform for true free speech on the internet has been established yet. I have an idea I think will work, it should allow complete freedom of speech except I would guess for technical attacks. I think I will make a post on it soon here.

Nice community you have fostered so far. The pyramid of debate is an interesting idea.

[–]magnora7[S] 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

The pyramid of debate is an interesting idea.

I wish I could take credit for it, but it's invented by Paul Graham, who is the owner of ycombinator and hackernews. I just liked it a lot and repurposed it here.

It's like an open backup.

Yes exactly! I'm glad you see the value in it.

I am looking forward to hearing your idea! The more ideas the better, this post-reddit era is a fertile ground to try new things.

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

I didn't assume you invented it but good and interesting things deserve to be spread.

I have to stew a bit more on my idea, I think I need to present it right. I haven't thought on it really thoroughly just a little over many many years now. It should solve most of the current issues. There is angles I hadn't really thought on though. Some of the discussion at r/RedditAlternatives/, particularly involving you has been thought provoking. I am thinking for my idea although distributed is not necessary it would be best. I am thinking the block chain would be the best solution for that aspect?

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

we had it in 8chan, until they shut us down for exposing the plandemic, the communist cadres in the US military and sharing facebook videos of false flag events. A distributed IPFS version of that would be nice, with no CP, of course.