If you could improve anything about saidit, what would it be?

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[–]trytonotjustlurk 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

First thanks for your work. I don't have specific things I'd like to see but interested in anything which makes it decentralized and helps to stop the same things as happened to Reddit happening here if it gets big.

[–]magnora7[S] 6 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

Hey, just happy to provide a useful service, doing my bit to try and help improve things.

and helps to stop the same things as happened to Reddit happening here if it gets big.

This is a big focus as well for sure. d3rr and I see both reddit and voat (and digg) as cautionary tales about how things can go wrong.

Saidit's new voting system, lack of ads (and thus lack of selling out), admins dedicated to this grassroots structure instead of chasing ad revenue, and other advantages including the site moderation being based on the pyramid of debate, will put saidit on a better path in the long run. But if anyone has an idea to add another defense against this type of decay, I'm all ears.

[–]Earl_Harbinger 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Do you have a backup plan if donations aren't enough to keep the lights on?

[–]magnora7[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yes. Our total expenses are low enough at the moment where I can fund it out of pocket for a while, but after that runs out, that's it. We really hope to do this through user donations. We try our best to streamline costs to keep them as low as possible, and we're doing pretty good at $45/mo (and we just upgraded our RAM so we should be good for a while), although we're looking at potentially adding another $25/mo so we can have a proper dev environment and mirror of saidit code because we mostly do live testing right now on the site and that kind of limits the scope of the coding experiments we can try. But we might figure out a way to do it for free. Maybe. We are trying our best.

We are also looking in to building a cryptocurrency for saidit, that would be used for tipping (but not voting) and people could mine it in-browser in a tab if they choose, and earn some for both themselves and for saidit as a whole, as well as earning it when tipped. Then if this cryptocurrency takes on a real tradeable value, this could help pay for some of the operating expenses. But that project is probably a year away from being finished, at least.

So between all that we have 3 layers of protection.