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[–]JasonCarswell 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

I agree that too much of the "judgements" are arbitrary, without clear examples, but I do like the simplicity and clarity of much of the Pyramid. For example, name-calling is obvious, refuting the core idea is obvious, etc. However, "downward" is not always so cut and dried with much undefined grey area leaving a LOT up to subjective authoritarian use/abuse. To add more confusion, "comedy" is all in the eye of the beholder.

Correct: A council does not solve ALL problems. It diffuses it and make it a systemic problem. Instead of fighting a single "enemy" you'd be fighting an entrenched "system". However, considering that SaidIt is an anti-authority platform (my words, not M7s) run by one dude it needs all the help it can get. If that means delegating the problem-solving to his minions under his veto-powered control, then that might lessen his burden, give him more time to do other things, make things run smoother - and remove much of the "human error" that is inevitably going to happen under one person.

Anyone can make their own instance of SaidIt, federated or not - or other similar forum platforms. With two-tiers or more.

I've considered starting a sub to discuss building a new SaidIt clone, how it would be open, transparent, democratic, etc. including predetermining new rules, how subs are created, managed, a new voting system, bot rules, and the need for metatags. Whether it's using SaidIt code or not, it would be nice to federate it too.

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[–]JasonCarswell 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

I know about it, but I don't know the community. I hear they've stalled in their federating efforts. I also heard they're commies though I don't know if that was a joke or exaggeration of the old-left or if they really are far left.

I don't like communism (nor capitalism), I have respect for some Marxism (ie. authentic informed democracy, authentic ground-up movements, all open cooperatives), and deeply care about decentralization.

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

I think they 'stalled' on the federation efforts on purpose. Some fascists were starting to mess around with the platform and liked it (me and the boys) and I wouldn't be surprised if they were bought off to essentially halt the project.

People that design decentralized systems need to know that they are going to attract all types of groups but especially dissidents. That just goes with the terf. If your platform doesn't support/allow genuine dissidents then it's not a truly decentralized platform.