SaidIt alternatives?

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[–]LarrySwinger2 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (9 children)

Hey fschmidt. Jason and I are working on things. We're making great progress. We've basically got the server set up, and I could start hosting things right away, although I'd like a reinstall with a different partition layout. My main project will be a PhpBB forum that's focused on actual discussions about conspiracies (rather than link aggregation), as well as philosophy, religion, spirituality, and related topics. Stay tuned for a proper announcement about this.

I'm also going to set up other software for people as a community service. Some people have expressed interest in a Lemmy instance. I may set that up as well, but I'd need to find other people who are motivated to keep the community engaged, as PhpBB will be my own focus. Would you like to be involved?

Are you able to get Session working? Jason gave me your ID and I added you to our group, but you never said anything.

[–]fschmidt[S] 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (8 children)

Any real solution must be decentralized. Are you doing this?

[–]LarrySwinger2 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (5 children)

A decentralized solution is a long-term goal for me. I've been testing a couple of platforms. I haven't encountered anything yet about which I'm really content, but I'm not done exploring the options yet (and specifically IPFS is a platform I want to look into). I also have ideas for software myself. I really want to take a grand approach. But I'm not a software developer, so I can't work on this without schooling myself first. Right now I'm content with simply setting up a new forum, because it can be done straight away. I know that I have the competence to run it properly and the integrity not to sell out, and hosting it on Tor will make raids less likely; this is sufficient for me.

And in a way we already have decentralization in that anyone can set up their own forum, and people can point their web browsers to the sites they like or subscribe only to RSS feeds they like.

P.S. do you include federated software as decentralized. Because Lemmy is federated.

[–]fschmidt[S] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

Yes federated. I discussed Lemmy here.

[–]JasonCarswell 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

You're against making FLOSS, but what if there was some kind of a caveat promise?

For example, you promise that after 5 or 10 years you make it 100% open source. And/or, if the donations exceed a certain level. And/or any number of creative alternative ideas.

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

I would make it open source from the beginning.

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

I thought you were dead set against it and only wanted proprietary. Change of mind or am I confused?

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

You are confused.

https://saidit.net/s/PhoenixForum/comments/7i60/my_vision_for_social_forums/

I have always said that I want it to be open source.

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

1,000,000%

Without a team of coders the only advantages we can have over SaidIt are 1) decentralization, 2) Lemmy/Lenny, PeerTube, MediaWiki, etc all have coder support communities, 3) we will have more fair, open, accountable, consistent (perhaps as this is my weakness), and honest social management systems. Systems plural. A critical and unique concept I have yet to share.

ALL of these are possible today (/s/Cassy), not like the theoretical wish lists and sci-fi dreaming of /s/PhoenixForum.