More SaidIt GUI ideas/issues

submitted by JasonCarswell from self.SaidIt

Started a new thread as some of the old ones are long.

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[–]JasonCarswell[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (9 children)

In "Messages"...

There's a "mark all as read" but not one for the opposite which might be nice. Though I'd prefer both to be more specific, "mark all here/above as read/unread", because there are more pages, which leads me to...

"view more: ‹ prev | next ›"

That's it? There is no count number, no option to "view 20|50|100|200|500" or whatever. Again, this could potentially be adjusted under preferences too.

I totally understand if new user settings are simplified by default. I hope to become a power-user or whatever the SaidIt equivalent of WikiGnome is (opposite of a WikiTroll).

Lastly, I think I brought it up but maybe I missed/forgot the answer or didn't query it properly...

Is there a reason the posts get locked in? Perhaps it's fundamental in the code architecture or more flexibly by admin settings? For example I might want to revisit my postings to adjust the titles or put them in a different sub.

I certainly don't mean to sound like I'm bitching if this comes off wrong. This is meant as constructive criticism to help improve the site or at very least learn about it.

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (8 children)

The reddit news aggregator and upvote model locks titles and other stuff in, or things would be manipulated after the fact. to move a post you can post it again in a different sub or there is a crossposting concept which maintains a link back to the original.

power users are into this extension, fire it up at old.reddit.com and check out how many settings it has https://redditenhancementsuite.com/

[–]JasonCarswell[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (7 children)

Nifty gadget! And it works on SaidIt? Are there other tools I should know about?

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

We have a said it fork that mostly works, the header section gets messed up because we customized it, link in the footer. Not in Chrome store or whatever yet.

The only other Reddit thing you should know is here's how Reddit gives all of their data to the Feds and bot writers: https://pushshift.io/

[–]JasonCarswell[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

I installed the Reddit RES. Should I take it out before adding yours?

Neat info.

I already knew you were collecting my data, building a profile, and anticipating my next moves with A.I. that can see into the future. Tell me how it ends.

Also I've just downloaded some YouTube Reddit videos that are far more promising than every single shit page I came across.

I'm going to add flair icons. I could make some for the other not-my-subs if you want. Maybe make some lists in the wikis.

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

You can have them both going if you want, they only activate based on url.

How it ends is like in China. If you participate in subversive content you can't buy a gun and get a zero credit score and can't buy property or fly on a plane.

Edit: for the record Said it does not share data with anyone. We do have ips as part of the rate limiting/abuse prevention code.

[–]JasonCarswell[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

At least in China if you don't get a gun you can fall back on your kung-fu.

Please put that "Said it does not share data with anyone" in the Canary!

Also please add Brave browser to the Chrome\Opera group on RES.

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

/u/magnora7 Jason brought up a good point, we should say somewhere that we don't share data with anyone. Maybe we should add a 'Privacy' section to here https://saidit.net/s/SaidIt/comments/j1/the_saiditnet_terms_and_content_policy/ or add a privacy policy page.

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

Sounds good. I'll add it soon

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

I added this:

Privacy

We do not share your data with anyone, nor do we have any intent to aggregate data with the purpose of selling it, unlike many social media companies. We don't gather data that we don't need.

[–]JasonCarswell[S] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (14 children)

I don't know if it's best to keep going or if splitting like this is encouraged or if it's just more shit piles to keep track of...

Anyway, I don't know why or how, but some posts are duplicated I don't expect a simple de-duplicator would be too difficult to code comparing the title and the body and the sub and if all three are a perfect match = delete one. Or better - merge them, if there are comments.

This one may not be as easy or maybe it's easier...

Reading through the "Newest" posts, below the blue or purple linked title in grey smaller text are the options "comment" "share" "save" "hide" "report". I don't mind that it's as "subdued" as it is. I actually think it's perfect. Except. It would be awesome if there was a distinction between "comments 0" and "comments #" so that I can ignore that line, though it's still there and visible for its options, unless someone has made at least 1 comment prompting me to want to click on it. What is this distinction? You decide. Does it get larger, get boxed like a button, get an icon, get brighter, get hyper-link coloured, get fluorescent pink and green alternating flashing letters... You decide how that "comments >0" might be more visible.

I'm guessing the background grey of the dark theme is just under #666666. No it's not a Satanic number and if you don't know this I don't have time to explain old RBG-Web colours to you. I've customized my FastStone image viewer backgrounds and other stuff to be darker between RBG 252525 to RBG 505050. While that may initially seem dramatically darker, it's actually not. And you might think that there might be problems distinguishing black over the dark dark RBG 252525 grey, I assure you that black #000000 is still very distinguishable. I would prefer it if you went dark dark over just darker, and we know to avoid black BG, but it's not my site. It's just my recommendation.

If you make the background darker you may want to make that smaller "subdued" slightly darker too in order to keep it subdued. For example, If you pushed the BG colour from RBG 505050 to RBG 252525 that's a difference of 25 so if the subdued (for lack of the actual term) text were RGB 100 100 100 you might shift it to RBG 75 75 75. Unless not subduing it is the only solution for my initial issue reading that line when comments > 0.

Also, FYI, not for anything in particular but just for future reference in web designing, colours with purpose help - a LOT. They don't even have to be huge distinctions. Not that I'm recommending this, but for example, you could tint various fields of grey with colours. A slightly yellower-grey would be different than a slightly bluer or redder or whatever grey. It will NOT look like any yellow but it will be yellower by the numbers with higher red and green than blue. Keep that in your back pocket and keep this in your front pocket... On my dark theme screen I see light grey text, mid grey text, mint green, sky blue, and very red text that says "there doesn't seem to be anything here". I think it's all perfect, (though it might be more accurate for it to say "There don't seem to be any comments here." as I'm writing this comment in the box above it.) To my point, all of these are very easy to read except the hot red colour. But that hot red serves the powerful purpose of grabbing my attention as it's the most important thing on this page. Highway signs are black and yellow because it's the most visible combination. White on black or hot red or hot green on black are actually more difficult to read. The red and green only use some of the cones in your eyes and the white is too hot and the glow will muddy the letters. Just as blue on black is low contrast to our eyes and therefore also difficult to read, yellow is still high contrast but the touch of colour acts as a glare filter. I have no proposed use for this (announcements? pinned posts? admin comments? warnings?), but if down the road you want to make anything important or stand out with colour and keep it legible, especially content more than a phrase, you might consider a light yellow over dark grey. The day mode inverse equivalent might be dark-orange-brown on white or light grey (rather than black on white). Other light colours are excellent as well but yellow is the best and while I actually find yellow on grey easier to read than grey on grey but I don't actually like seeing everything through a golden shower. In my FontStone image browser everything is greys on greys except the yellow under each image "1280x720 PNG" or whatever.

Do any folks use the "save" and "hide" functions? I've not tinkered with them.

I said SubDude.

[–]Mnemonic 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Anyway, I don't know why or how, but some posts are duplicated I don't expect a simple de-duplicator would be too difficult to code comparing the title and the body and the sub and if all three are a perfect match = delete one. Or better - merge them, if there are comments.

It's duplicated because it's posted in different subs 'de-duplicating' would mean censoring a (random?) sub of it's content that is probably relevant to it. Every duplicated link has a 'other discussions' tab (example: https://saidit.net/s/WorldPolitics/duplicates/88v/from_bitchute_patreon_part_two_our_appeal_was/)

Subs aren't only broad categories, some are personal blogs, scrapbooks or just a place for like minded people and therefor different discussions.

I don't know if it's best to keep going or if splitting like this is encouraged or if it's just more shit piles to keep track of...

Usually a thread is made to keep it all together, which makes it all easier.

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

Re: duplicates, good to know. I didn't realize. I suppose limiting it to one sub per post keeps folks from abusing the categories, intentionally or not, like could happen if they were classified by meta-tags. It finally makes a little sense why Steemit limits their tags to 5 which always bugged me.

Any chance the posts could be separate but their comments shared/merged/mirrored?

So long endless threads are common? At least on Reddit? (which I've rarely visited)

Easier is good. I'm still trying to work out my SaidIt "routine". Initially I was bouncing all over with a bunch of tabs open in my browser and a bunch of hibernated tabs that I'd check to see if anyone responded to my blinding brilliance. Now I've got my system with two main tabs, a few secondary hibernated tabs, and a handfull of others. My two main SaidIt tabs are "New" and "Comments" to catch all the recent gossip and from which I can pop open the articles and/or conversations. My secondary tabs are "Overview", "Messages", and my one sub, but now I see my overview lists my sub. I don't really even need the overview as my name is in the header. And I was awaiting feed back on message management to see if I could individually "mark as read".

How do you manage? Have any ergonomic/organizational tips? Do you use "save" or "hide"? It's not rocket science so maybe I'm pushing too hard for a nothing burger.

Thus far on SaidIt I've mostly seen short commentary threads on external articles, some internally based conversations, and a few longer discussions. Is that typical. I had expected more centralized long form ongoing conversations on a topic, but now I see it's different with subs being the topic.

One reason I'd never wanted to join Reddit was because when I did visit for one reason or another while doing research, I'd stumble into a forum-like discussion but because it was closed or archived I couldn't offer my two cents or answers to questions they had. If everything gets closed what's the point? Sure, I know that you can go to some forums that still have open conversations from over a decade ago, or even Wikipedia talk pages where you're supposed to discuss the content and controversies of the article (but not socialize!), - and you can add to these long-term discussions, just don't expect a timely response if ever.

On another note, and I want you (or anyone reading this) to be brutally honest. I know that I've been commenting a shit tonne and I feel like I'm dominating this site with what seems like a handful of regulars and another handful less regulars (who likely have jobs and lives, etc). As a noob I feel like a bull in a china shop. Or like a cat pissing all over my new territory. Obviously I feel compelled to do this but I also I care enough to ask if it's an imposition in any way. It's all new and weird to me. Though I often walk on eggshell on Wikipedia when in conflict with someone else about whatever. Maybe that's because I've been beaten into submission by being banned for a year, but then, I was self-conscious before that. I look forward to feedback, good bad or ugly.

Regardless of the feedback, I keep threatening to control my SaidIt addiction, and I will for all our sakes. Not because I won't be shooting off my mouth about this or that, but because of my mysterious projects I hope will elevate SaidIt, InfoGalactic, and most importantly minds everywhere. And I can't do that while reading articles that either reaffirm what I already know or learning new little (or big) details about the big picture corruption. I don't intend to abandon SaidIt, just focus and limit my time here. ...After I finish having fun with it for a while.

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while doing research, I'd stumble into a forum-like discussion but because it was closed or archived I couldn't offer my two cents or answers to questions they had.

This bugs me too, we don't archive here or it archives in 99 years or something.

I think a lot of people use Save for like bookmarking their favorite posts and comments (and it will soon allow choosing a category to save in for further organization). There is a counterproductive reddit limit of 1000 saves though, we need to boost that to unlimited here. I think Hide is for a single post and hardly anyone uses that.

As far as messaging, it's supposed to be self managing. The message icon turns orange, you click it to read, and then the message is automatically marked as read. We're always open to improvements but I don't think it's even used here very much.

I recommend a single saidit tab or you will slowly drive yourself insane with tab bloat, and end up having to switch browsers because you have 8 windows open with 50 tabs each. reddit is an ADD fest I don't know how to use it but I support research projects and intentional group investigations and bettering the experience.

SaidIt has so few users that people haven't fled off into subreddits to hang out in, so that's a unique element as well.

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

I can't tell you how happy I am to soon be able to sort my saves. I have only save one thing so far: The Juice Media thing. If I had discovered it soon I'm sure I would have saved a fucktonne.

"Tab bloat". I like that term. I had that early on. I was "tab constipated".

"reddit is an ADD fest". You're talking to Mr. ADD, but I don't think they like our kind there... ~TRUTHERS~ !

"Fled", you "SaidIt". Another term I like. I'll soon flee into my own subsaidit projects. I already missed half of yesterday and feel so far behind, and if it builds up enough backlog I'll eventually abandon my guilty need to "be informed of EVERYTHING". This has happened to me in every medium and platform all my life. I am a black hole but I need to invert it and spray my sunshine all over your faces.

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

Nice link. I've never seen that page working on saidit or tested it or anything. Whew.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (8 children)

if you want to provide some css changes/overrides we'll check it out and consider using it. You could use custom css in your sub to do it or otherwise.

[–]JasonCarswell[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (7 children)

Right. I'd forgotten that. Nice. I changed my https://saidit.net/s/DecentralizeAllThings/ stylesheet.

In the process I discovered that the default SaidIt dark theme background colour is close to or exactly #333333.

Most pages don't have black text, but there is some small font black text with the url to my banner images, so I didn't got as dark as I might, event though I won't need to read that text. Going darker and still distinguishing black is still easy for graphics and normal or big text, but not small text.

I don't know how to NOT make it misinterpret the text...

header-bottom-left {

height: 50x;
padding-top: 165px;
background: url(%%The-Dark-Side-Of-The-Money-1600x200%%) no-repeat;
background-position: 50%

} body{ background-color: #282828; } .side { background-color: #111111; /*choose your sidebar background color */ }

[–]JasonCarswell[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

I found a bug.

I was trying to get flair to work and fucking around I found out why it wasn't. The chat box and sidebar on the right was over top and obscuring the save/delete buttons for each flair and preventing me from seeing or clicking some of them.

[–]JasonCarswell[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

I wouldn't mind a chatbox expand/collapse option.

I would likely leave it open most of the time even if no one currently uses it and it's a waste of space, just in case someone actually says something and in case I actually see it in any timely fashion.

[–]JasonCarswell[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

The flair editing form is terrible, assuming I'm even doing it correctly (I can't even get a font, background, border change, much less add an image). Is there a way to edit it like the CSS stylesheet?

The dozens of Reddit CSS help pages are shit. It's a wonder it's so popular. Ironically Quora had the best help page but it only explained what flair was, not how to change the things, and Quora fully banned me so I can't login with Google as REQUIRED to see other Quora pages which might actually help. FUCK QUORA, BRUTALLY!!! and their "moderators" and their lack of clear policies, rules, guides, instructions, or even specific explanations or recourse for banning me and stealing my work. Getting banned was not the first time I had problems there that were never ever explained, though through persistence I did discover some things how it worked and is rigged. If I recall correctly I was on Quora hard before I delved hard into Wikipedia.

It would be infinitely easier if it showed an example to copy, either displayed by default or by requests (ie. click on "help" or a "?") Multiple examples would be ideal featuring text options and image options.

[–]JasonCarswell[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

I think I finally found an example that makes sense in this image: https://i.imgur.com/zk1do.png

I was trying to add the stylesheet code on the right into the CSS class on the left of the image. If I understand it as it appears, I didn't realize that setting up the flair is one thing and the CSS is separate and not to be input in the flair set up. NO ONE explains this.

I really hope this works...

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

Finally got the fundamentals of it. Not easy or intuitive. Shit documentation. And I hate when CSS or HTML or whatever give you different results when you change the order and it should not matter.

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

Welcome to reddit/said it :)

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

I should have started on YouTube. WAAAAAAAAAAAAAY better.

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

Beside "1 insightful - 0 funny - 3 hours ago*" there is space.

I'd previously suggested metatags could go there.

Here's something I'd also find useful, maybe more so...

The time and date at a glance. I like the relative time reference and the hover over function revealing the permanent time, but I'd prefer both displayed simultaneously. (I HATE that YouTube (and other Tube sites) only displays the relative time.)

Perhaps this could be something to turn on in the preferences where you get other options to display it in your preferred style, clock, timezone, or if you even want the date and/or time displayed.

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not a bad idea. yeah relative time gets bad when looking through old stuff.

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

you can add tags/flair to posts in your sub already, check out https://saidit.net/s/DecentralizeAllThings/about/flair/

[–]JasonCarswell[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

So I could use 1 tab rather than my 2 browser tabs, "new" and "comments", if "comments" were tabbed in the header with "hot new funny top".

I forget, was this difficult and on the todo list or on its way soon? No hurry. Just a reminder in case it was forgotten if your memory is anything like mine.

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Yep 'comments' and possibly 'discussed' is on the list for right after the mobile app(s), aka soon.

[–]JasonCarswell[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

I don't think I heard of https://saidit.net/discussed before. Didn't work.

It sounds like it should be obvious, but what does it do?

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discussed will be posts sorted by most recent comment, and comments will be newest comments, regardless of posts

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

Kewl.

Two things come to mind...

You just concisely explained it. It would be fantastic if somehow you could have descriptions like that pop up when you hover over the tab.

Will the discussed be the full post or just the context? I vote for the later with an option to see the rest. Unless it's problematic.

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discussed will just be a posts list page, like new/hot/top, same template different sort. Comments will look like this page which currently has no link to find it: https://saidit.net/comments https://saidit.net/s/SaidIt/comments

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

Kewl. Context is there. I like my context. MSM won't give you none.

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

An idea occurs to me, possibly frivolous, regarding the immutable and mutable parts of SaidIt. I suspect this would be a lot of work for minor practicality, especially since everyone's already accustomed to Reddit/SaidIt and the user experience. Another colour for permanent uneditable text might be good. Hyperlinks are blue or purple (visited) and on Wikipedia some are red (unmade) and orange (disambiguation) (and could go bright green, dark green, and brown). Reconfiguring something like this for something so minor is prolly a waste of time and/or a decade too late.

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

I can't be the first one to think of this, so maybe it already exists. Or maybe it requires a simple (or complex) script or some kind of actual human curation.

BEST OF THE DAY

I've missed the last couple/few days and feel behind. But it's necessary to break my addiction. Further, I like some better than others but feel like almost all of the posts are important. But to maintain a modicum of sanity I need restraint. So obviously a top ten or preferably top 20 daily list, not just at that moment but over the whole day, archived somehow, so slackers like me can browse back through a calendar or whatever.

Also, if metatags or some kind of flair are introduced, I'd be happy to help with graphics.

[–]JasonCarswell[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

Automation

Maybe this isn't GUI, but then I don't know if this deserves a whole OP.

A couple times a week I go through my YouTube favourite channels to download the latest (with YouTube-DLG), most of which I'll never get around to seeing, but maybe will be censored. Also, there may be a day when IPFS or something like it can benefit from my vast archive. I do this by hand for two reasons. YouTube doesn't always notify you. And my method minimizes my exposure to YouTube where I can get distracted and/or try to collect all the things. I'll still be exposed to new things here or there, but far less when I don't have to actually go to every page.

So I wonder if SaidIt could or would automate some kind of substitute thing for the YouTube notifications, or at least for certain channels.

There are most definitely drawbacks. Not ever episode of every channel is gold and worth sharing.

Perhaps this is something worth discussing. Who are the most reliable sources or are our favourite truthers? Or who has the best content with rare duds, regardless how fast they produce them? Sooo many to consider. I've got short, medium, and long lists and my limited and/or detailed views on all of them. YouTube is good for multitasking except when I need extreme focus or am composing a paragraph or more.

Vaguely related - I've had my own system of ranking videos for years. I'll occasionally give an "A" to good videos, though I don't label many as a lot are good. I try to give more "A+" to those who've earned the notability. "A++" are less common but I always mark them, and of the ones I've marked, these are most plentiful. Very rarely do I come across "A+++" that I want to share with my Mom and the world. Sometimes a couple a month, sometime nothing for a couple months. For ages now I've been meaning to put them all in a playlist. When I do, I'll also post them here, even if they're not new, perhaps in a dedicated sub. Then the A++ next. Whenever I get to it. Unless it's a bad idea.

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I'm hesitant about putting time into a (dying for our purposes) video platform. If SaidIt ends up allowing bots though someone could make some kind of YouTube notification bot.

PeerTube can import a whole playlist. I'll archive your playlist to there when I see it.

[–]JasonCarswell[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

That's a neat trick. Kinda like my recent discovery, YouTube-DLG : https://duckduckgo.com/?q=YouTube-DLG I used to rely on timesuck addons, one by one.

I'd not had any playlists for a decade. Then less than two years ago I started 4, only because it seemed like there was a void. I'm not saying all this stuff is even A+ much less A+++ but it's worth making a playlist for.

Sam Tripoli used to have more personal stuff but now seems primarily TFH and I think he's removed some with this show's success. At the time it seemed nice to sort through all that and present a clean list so I started the "Tin Foil Hat podcast playlist (with Sam Tripoli)" : https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvg8eyC7StzS87ByPO1OOAOBtVC3u4siG

ALL of Tim Kelly's stuff is great. And Atwills scattered stuff too. For some reason I just thought collecting this stuff together seemed like a good idea. "Powers & Principalities Playlist (Tim Kelly & Joe Atwill)" : https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvg8eyC7StzTDikjUhvccZJly9kCJ3u3B I like this show so much I started this article stub : https://infogalactic.com/info/Powers_&_Principalities I had started copy/pasting the mediocre YouTube auto-transcriptions, for the record and posterity's sake should they get censored and I was downloading it all. Back in April I actually spent a few days cleaning up one transcription ( https://infogalactic.com/info/Powers_&_Principalities,_Episode_047,_Proper_Transcription ) that you may wish to include for that show should you "back it up", adding hyperlinks and a couple factual corrections and/or skeptical notes. I wasn't going to half do it but I sure as hell won't do another. And then I fell behind and haven't copy/pasted the rest of the mediocre YouTube auto-transcriptions.

This list is almost pointless as it's essentially just his video list, but I feel this is prolly the most underrated show on YouTube, "The Shift Playlist (host Doug McKenty)" : https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvg8eyC7StzRqOJAoc_WwQ8p-os1C4EcO Not only does he have A++ guests, the interviews are excellent as well. Sadly his output has slowed. I say my list is almost pointless, but I often "bundle" these four playlists when I promote them. Whether it's in the comments of TFH or P&P or wherever, I will often, when I think about it, say something like, "If you liked this episode of Tin Foil Hat, check out the playlist or these others..."

I'm not really into true crime stuff, but have had significant exposure to some cases via certain sources like Ed Opperman, who do many shows on OJ Simson's innocence or the Zodiac Killer myth or the Smiley Face Killer mystery. Professor Thomas Horan's "The Stones Unturned Playlist" : https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvg8eyC7StzQ18hC-8ZVjX2ttirnoQOBv is also largely a copy of his video list, as it turns out. I thought it might be a little more. It's good but infrequent. Of note is how the media has played up the Serial Killer threat hysteria in news and pop culture of the late 20th century, yet they've all since vanished to be replaced with terrorists - cause they stopped? Or more propaganda?

I recently just started 3 other music playlists but they're awful and need more curating and selections. I want them but am not yet interested in dedicating efforts there just yet. Forget it - I just made them unlisted until they're something I can be proud of.

I'll keep you posted when I organize an "A+++" and maybe "A++" list. Prolly when I get another harddrive and have to swap one out. It will actually make me feel much better, that I haven't just been wasting my time all to myself, but actually getting it out there - in two ways.

I don't know if YouTube is really dying so much as an obstacle course of the establishment. This is a whole other conversation though. I also have a plan to "infiltrate" them. If my "Trutherism 101" project is half as good as I hope it will, if I can focus on making it, it may develop a following. I intend for it to parody everything under the sun without limit, included truthers themselves/ourselves. Further, I intend to start off strong but slow and build it to irrefutable hard hitting truths. By that time, I hope to have some supportive following and if/when they ultimately censor it, the martyrdom will not be for naught. Unless the global terror war is already too obvious and my efforts will come too late.

Anyway, thanks for your offer to import a playlist. I don't know if any of the above are of interest to you or worthy of your valuable hard drive space. I certainly won't feel rejected, in part because I've already seen them and in part because I haven't embraced PeerTube yet, and in part because it's your choice not mine. I'm just proposing candidates on hand. If the bandwidth isn't an expense, you may wish to download some to share, if you have some space free, until you have better content to replace it.

FYI, I just discovered this "circa now" channel ( https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwCFNn9grbEPqrFspV0IMGA ) and am downloading all their videos. I know some is good for sure, but I don't know if it's all aces. Also, I don't know how much is original and how much is "borrowed". Maybe you'll find goodies there.

Edit: Holly Seeliger of Zoon Politikon mentioned Kip Simpson (Chris Simpsons http://www.RealityReader.com ) during an interview. Another one new to me. If she recommends him I'm pretty sure he's good, even if small time. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9GexwSxlqjo9NhMMdcv6zg/ I'm downloading his archive next.

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Oh, youtube-dlg looks cool, I've been using the GUI-less guts of the thing, youtube-dl. (Gui schmooey).

Thanks for the playlists, these are all new to me aside from Sam Tripoli. I'll check them out and archive the good stuff. Your A+++ list sounds very intriguing. I do have to be a bit choosey because of hard drive space but so far so good, 250gb for $5/month and I've only used 20gb or so.

Good point about YouTube, they are not dying but are more popular than ever, they are finally selling access to TV channels too.

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About the A+++ list... They may be A+++ to us or they may also be A+++ because they are concise and to the point and/or they maybe perfect to share to newbies and sheeple like my Mom, who's starting to wake up some (still a looooong way to go). Some of the older A+++ may also be something profound that was either new to me or new at the time. I'm not going to watch them all over again, but I suspect some may be just A++ now.

YouTube is where the sheeple flock is. Most folks on alt-tubes are preaching to the choir. Censorship is the battleground for hearts and minds and freedom and truth. I think that until the A.I. DemiGod Overlord shuts us down that's where the battle will remain unless we can really get this decentralized web thing working.

It's a chicken-egg thing. I am broke as fuck but in a stable situation. I'd LOOOOVE to buy a big server to co-host SaidIt (when they figure out their decent-web plan), and PeerTube, DTube, IPFS, Holochain, ZeroNet, etc, as well as renting out space. I might even be able to beg borrow steal seed funding for it. BUT, if there is no demand for the Decent-Web then there's little chance all the content I host will earn Filecoin, Steemit, Holo-coin, etc etc etc for the service that would be provided (for maintenance, connection, upgrades, expansion, sustainability), there's no way to compete with the established cloud-based corporate overlords.

As much as I'd love to buy a big server, I'd love EVEN MORE to have everyone (that can afford it) have a dishwasher or refrigerator sized server in their home, perhaps in the basement beside their similarly sized water heater, air conditioner, and/or home heating system - with everyone's system sustainably earning and growing, even if half of them were serviced by trusted local tech folks. THAT's how this COULD work, if people actually properly could invest in their future freedom.

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there's no way to compete with the established cloud-based corporate overlords.

true that. at least this whole operation and my peertube server are amazon and google free. I like the home server idea, but I think it means you have to buy an expensive ISP plan and be pinned down somewhat. If you go big though it makes sense.

if people actually properly could invest in their future freedom

Amen let's do the damn thing.

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That's my point.

The system is rigged in every way. The expensive ISP service is barely any different than regular service. That's intentional. They don't want good or competitive networks out there.

But if everyone had one and demanded a better price, maybe.

Or... We adapt and build our own in various ways. Let's for the moment pretend that everyone is adopting this new decentralized system and it all pays for itself as the market meets the demand. (Rather than supply side economics overproducing shit for landfills, demand side is superior and less wasteful.) But "they" are closing down the connections and services.

So we adapt. Rather than relying only on direct physical networks we can create wireless networks like the Better Approach To Mobile Adhoc Networking (B.A.T.M.A.N.) : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B.A.T.M.A.N.

But we don't want to burden wireless systems much less adopt 5G or worse to increase bandwidth. If every computer server system had something like FreeNAS ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeNAS ) in it, you could be make lots of redundant drive, not only good for backup security but also for "trade". Let's say every week you shipped a couple 4tb drives to a network determined location somewhere else near or far to perpetuate and spread the information you had. Also, you'd be copying new redundant drives all week and every week you'd also receive a couple 4tb drives from some other seemingly random place. Random to people, but determined by the systems operated by folks. For example, all of this weeks updates on GitLab could be put on a drive and shipped to one town in Africa to be disperesed there. Not the best example.

So maybe they'd try to stop shipments. That doesn't stop people from inventing their own systems. You viisit your friends and neighbors and coworkers and swap drives with them. Some folks travel to other towns etc. etc. etc. It could be a way of life - only if 1) people rejected the authority systems and 2) the decent-web systems could be profitable and sustainable on some level small or large.

Anyway, they say most of the traffic on the interwebs is Netflix and porn. Even if you drop the porn, Netflix is serving content that could be compressed with x265. Also they shouldn't be serving everyone, so much as seeding to some who share with others, like webtorrent. In this way Bitchute, PeerTube, etc are a superior model to YouTube if they could expand and everyone be part of the participatory cloud rather rely on the authority cloud.

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Someone in the TLAV Discord chat said they couldn't get to the Truther Top 20 thing to read it.

StarrWilsonToday at 8:59 PM

Jason, I can't read it unless I sign up.

https://discordapp.com/channels/466130476000739328/466130476650725377

Is this supposed to happen? Is it a glitch? I'd assumed everything was open/visible.