Proposal for how Saidit could actually develop the early environment of reddit, and become a valid reddit-alternative.

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[–]JasonCarswell 3 insightful - 4 fun3 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 4 fun -  (8 children)

SaidIt has had absolutely shitty leadership on the sub-creation front since before I arrived, despite my pleading for order. Sure M7 can put a stupid arbitrary top limit of 40 for the illusion of no "power-mods", but there's hundreds or thousands of subs now.

I mod 40 subs by not moderating them. I have 10 or 20 more that I'd like to create, but /u/magnora7 established the arbitrary limit of 40 max, even though I'd done absolutely nothing wrong to demand such a limit - and wrong-doing should be the real limit. I understand why there's a self-conscious limit on SaidiIt for tamping down power-mods that Reddit culture frowns on yet somehow overlooks - but this isn't Reddit, and I'm not a power-mod.

Empty subs, IMO, should be erased and/or unmodded after a month - including mine. Unmoderated subs, if you can measure that, a few.

If I was on top of my game I'd have a "MySubs" multisub with all my subs to check on the regular. I've made lots of multisubs, yet don't use any. That's on me. I still check a few times a year.

I didn't come here from Reddit and have never considered myself a Redditor. I've never given a shit about Reddit. I came here as a truth-seeker.

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    [–]JasonCarswell 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (4 children)

    I don't need to be mod to be actively confronting issues. I will explain things to folks, report them, and even call M7 when necessary.

    I am hanging onto the subs I want to do some things with, sooner or later. Animated banners would be nice. But I can't get the support I need to finish the CSS so I figure what's the fucking point. I might as well delete all the CSS and just have boring subs and unmod.

    Lately I've been making subs and unmodding myself. Then the topical sub is out there to be posted in. Unfortunately I haven't been filling them up as perhaps I ought to. Times have gotten strange and distracting. Plus I'm getting ambitious, unfocused, and will be starting some big projects.

    Still, I have a list of topical subs I want to see ASAP, created by me or anyone:

    • Fulfillment and/or WellBeing
    • Labor (less specific than /s/LaborRights)
    • Marketing (informative vs pressured/compelled/persuaded by overwhelming feelz, distinctly different than advertising)
    • Military (less specific than other related subs)
    • Resistance [to the corporatocracy] (examples, guides, how to, movements, news, regions, updates, etc)
    • Rights (more inclusive, less divisive, and less specific than other specific groups)
    • Tyranny (may include but not limited to: /s/Agenda21_Agenda2030, Authoritarianism, /s/Corporatocracy, Deception, DoubleStandards, Eugenics, Exploitation, Globalization, Hypocrisy, Illuminati, Machiavellianism, Manipulation, MartialLaw, NewWorldOrder, PsyWar, /s/RulingClass, /s/Surveillance, /s/Technocracy, Totalitarianism, Wahhabism, Zionism)

    I have many more in my list, but none as pressing. I also have a list of music genres, a list of personal projects, a list of personal hobbies and interests, and I even have a few community subs maybe someone might like to make first:

    • Build_Our_Futures - for discussing our plans, goals, and dreams within any sort of purpose, practicality, sustainability, self-reliance, etc
    • Find_More_Like_This - present something you like (music, movies, tv, images, ideas, stories, etc) and folks offer similar things in the same vein, genre, style, etc
    • If_I_Were_Leader - hypothetical pontificating, whether as leader of SaidIt, your nation, or the universe

    And I have a dozen more that I actually want to cultivate with direction and purpose, so I'd need to control them until they became self evident what they're about so they could continue without me.

    MANY of these topical subs would be MUCH better served with metatags or some sort of searchable classification system. I've been screaming about metatags since my first month here. I wouldn't be cross-posting all the fucking time, nor would anyone ever need to.

    Right, I always forget about /s/mod.

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      [–]JasonCarswell 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (2 children)

      I know /u/Enza animated the banner for WhiteOwlSocialClub but I don't know how.

      I made an animated banner for /s/Surveillance with just a globe spinning in the middle - but it would only accept JPGs or PNGs. I don't what is required to upload a GIF. I feel foolish about it, but gave up. /u/d3rr didn't have answers then.

      I thought of a hack and I think it might have been used for /s/ConsumeProduct: Have a giant image with each frame, then animate the image huge leaps, to the frame, like a film strip. It would be a pain in the ass to make the image like that and then to code the animation.

      I'll have to check out that generator some time. Thanks!

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

      An aPNG is an animated png, you can turn any gif into an animated png! I just made the aPNG transparent (and it was a flying owl), so I made the banner slide to the left and since it’s a transparent aPNG, it looks animated.

      You can have any image on your sub animated, not just the banner. You just need to shrink the file size of the aPNG or else it won’t upload.

      If anyone wants css from /s/whiteowlsocialclub or /s/Life, lmk!

      [–]fediverseshill 1 insightful - 3 fun1 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

      Sure M7 can put a stupid arbitrary top limit of 40 for the illusion of no "power-mods", but there's hundreds or thousands of subs now.

      I mod 40 subs by not moderating them. I have 10 or 20 more that I'd like to create, but /u/magnora7 established the arbitrary limit of 40

      You do know that by having more than 40 subs that doesnt increase the chance of a human female wanting to sleep with you, right? most of those subs could be combined into less.

      You shouldnt be making a sub everytime you learn a new word in the dictionary ;).

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

      Poor child, some of us have more on our minds than sex. Some of us are old too. Some of us have had more sex than any of you ever would - and that's not even considering the COVID nonsense. That said, I'm newly 50, not dead yet, and look forward to more sex.

      Everytime you learn a new word in the dictionary you can stick it up my /s/Terminology.

      You make subs your way. And I'll make subs my way. And M7 can choke on his arbitrary limits for show. For the integrity of SaidIt however, I will respect the community and the limits. I tried years ago to get some democratic organization into the subs, but now there's nothing but orders of magnitude more chaos, as expected, due to shitty "leadership". There was potential to be better and be a better research source. SaitIt is coasting without ambition, goals, or a future.