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[–]magnora7 36 insightful - 12 fun36 insightful - 11 fun37 insightful - 12 fun -  (56 children)

It seems your main complaint is that we don't advertise enough.

Then help us spread the word! You don't have to be an admin to do that.

Changing management isn't going to suddenly create more advertising buzz... if anything the opposite, because I've been promoting this site endlessly, for free, for years now. You won't get a better deal than that. This site operates on $102/mo, all of which goes to server costs, so any growth has to come from word of mouth, from users like you.

Also saidit grew a lot today, we had 1280 comments in the last 24 hours, which is a higher number than I've seen in a long while.

[–]UncleJemima 11 insightful - 6 fun11 insightful - 5 fun12 insightful - 6 fun -  (1 child)

Yep - and the protests continue at Reddit in splendid fashion: https://www.reddit.com/r/pics

[–]R51 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

that's just beautiful

[–][deleted] 9 insightful - 7 fun9 insightful - 6 fun10 insightful - 7 fun -  (2 children)

This is a great website. These are trannies in disguise, trying to take over saidit.

Not the Thai t girls. These are the American non passing that take bigger shits than me.

You are great, keep up the good work.

[–]bucetao6969[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I'm a tranny in disguise?

[–]Airbus320 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Yes, can you not read English?

[–]BISH 9 insightful - 2 fun9 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 2 fun -  (6 children)

The government that governs least; governs best.

[–]LarrySwinger2 5 insightful - 5 fun5 insightful - 4 fun6 insightful - 5 fun -  (4 children)

I love randomly; placed semicolons.

[–]jet199 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

That works

[–]Airbus320 1 insightful - 3 fun1 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

Found the c++ cuck

[–]bucetao6969[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Quality of life changes are still welcome though.

[–]AXXA 8 insightful - 4 fun8 insightful - 3 fun9 insightful - 4 fun -  (14 children)

Just imagine if the OP had put the same effort into recommending Saidit to his friends and acquaintances, as he did for this post.

[–]jet199 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (4 children)

Lol, who here has friends

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

I came here looking for friends

[–]jet199 2 insightful - 4 fun2 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 4 fun -  (1 child)

Pervert

[–]bucetao6969[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

??? 😂

[–]NutterButterFlutter 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

That would require actual friends instead of recurring alt accounts.

[–]bucetao6969[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (7 children)

They'll think I'm a transphobe.

Besides, I messaged a ton of subreddits to migrate to saidit. They moved to Lemmy though.

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

That's good. Sorry for assuming you didn't.

[–]bucetao6969[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

I do think if the owner tried a bit more the website would grow way more than me a single user trying his best to get others here.

Out of all the migrations, we only got a single sub. That's a BIG defeat.

That's the whole point of the post. To make the owner realize we just lost our biggest growth opportunity.

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

Thank you. I feel your zeal. I think you might be making the same kind of assumptions that I did.

Try to look at the positives instead of the negatives. You can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink.

Have you read Foundation by Isaac Asimov? The scientist Seldon forms a thousand year plan to lift civilization out of the dark ages.

[–]bucetao6969[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

A sorry I don't really read books. I was born in generation tiktok so I can't read a page of a book for more than 20 seconds without getting bored.

If you liked me a youtube video discussing this I would watch it though.

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

A generation that doesn't read books lends support to my point. Here's a short Youtube summary of the book.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2a5gwWnTKpI

"Asimov's Foundation books were a strong influence on me as a child" - Elon Musk

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1666100180217724929

Here's an interesting bonus video about the bronze age collapse.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aq4G-7v-_xI

[–]bucetao6969[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

A generation that doesn't read books lends support to my point. Here's a short Youtube summary of the book.

I mean. I still gather knowledge, just not from books. The internet is big place and getting my knowledge from places other than books still is very good even compared to someone that gets his knowledge from outdated books.

I'll watch your videos, thanks.

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

I didn't mean it as a slight. Books never allowed us to instantly share knowledge across the Earth. Everything is a tradeoff. There's pluses and minuses to every technology. Being outdated isn't necessarily a negative either. Have you read 1984 by George Orwell?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oe64p-QzhNE

[–]send_nasty_stuff 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (7 children)

Why don't you consider creating an advisory team of trusted saiditors that you allow to make some decisions when you are away from saidit or not engaged? It just seems like you don't have the enthusiasm needed to grow this site. This site is similar enough to reddit that hundreds of refugee subs should have taken up shop here during the black out. Yet they didn't. That's because it seems like the people that run saidit don't seem excited about growing it into a true reddit alternative. Unless there's some major change to the leadership here and people care about growing the site I'm gone as soon as I find a reasonable alternative.

Also if you want to make me a co owner of the site (or you just want to give me the entire site) I will pay the 102 dollars every month. After you give me the site I will create an advisory board with you on it.

[–]jet199 6 insightful - 4 fun6 insightful - 3 fun7 insightful - 4 fun -  (3 children)

trusted saiditors

Come on now

[–]bucetao6969[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

The owner trusts certain people enough to the point of making them admins.

[–]jet199 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

I remember some of those admins resigned because the owner wouldn't tell them what's going on.

[–]bucetao6969[S] 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Some admins tell me the owner is not that interested on saidit. They're still interested, just not that interested.

[–]DidNaziThat 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Would the new Saidit include DaR fundraising for the shipment of blacks back to Africa? (I think you might be responsible as admin, but the influence of your DaR pals woud be a problem.)

[–]bucetao6969[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

this ^

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

Also saidit grew a lot today, we had 1280 comments in the last 24 hours, which is a higher number than I've seen in a long while.

When was the last time? Was it the Ice Poseidon era?

[–]thelonewanderer1775 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

question, how do you create a new sub? im not familiar with old reddit at all, and im a refugee my account got perma banned because reddit cant handle my greatness.

[–]NutterButterFlutter 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Your account has to be 2 weeks old before you can create a sub. Once your account is old enough, the option will be on the upper right of pages, underneath "submit a new link" and "submit a new text post".

Check this thread for more info about SaidIt: https://saidit.net/s/SaidIt/comments/37r/welcome_to_saiditnet

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

[–]bucetao6969[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Welcome to Saidit :)

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    [–]magnora7 6 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

    I understand your concern, but this is the reason why: https://saidit.net/s/whatever/comments/ay50/reddit_blackout_welcome_thread/12iw0

    They instead often see something worse. We have it this way to help put our best foot forward.

    [–]AXXA 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

    You can make /all your default front page in your preferences.

    [–]AXXA 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

    /u/magnora7 this has probably been discussed before, but what are your thoughts about making the default home page preference for future new accounts be "all" instead of "subscribed"? I can see arguments either way, but overall "all" seems to fit better with the unfiltered nature of Saidit. I think it would lead to increased engagement and growth of Saidit. Then if people want to filter by subscribed, they can still go change their preference.

    [–]magnora7 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

    Thanks for the inquiry, I discussed why we can't do that here: https://saidit.net/s/whatever/comments/ay50/reddit_blackout_welcome_thread/12iw0

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

    Thanks for the answer. I remember the discussion now. That makes sense to start new users on subscribed until they learn more about Saidit.

    Now may be an auspicious time to make another post that explains how to change their preference and why they may or may not want to. It would be good to include instructions on how to block individuals and mute subs along with it, so that "all" can still be filtered according to their wishes.

    [–]magnora7 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    Glad to hear it, no problem. I think there is a guide already written for these features floating around that some people post from time to time

    [–]bucetao6969[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    I mean yeah, but there are things only the owner can do. Such as increasing acessibility for instance.

    I do like dark theme is on by default.

    [–]bucetao6969[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    What's the average number of comments?

    [–]bucetao6969[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

    It seems your main complaint is that we don't advertise enough.

    Nah. I mean we could advertise more. But my complaints was the website not having quality of life updates for a while and we not being a good pick compared to other alternatives (possibly because of no sophisticated API tools like reddit).

    Altough some of it is to do with mods being brainwashed leftoids that ban anyone with a opposing viewpoint. So they like going to a reddit alternative that has that.

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

    Most other alternatives that put in "quality of life" additions are simply adding features that we already have and have had for years. What sort of quality of life things specifically do you want that you don't have?

    [–]bucetao6969[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    I have some, but these only apply to me. Since you're the owner (I found out yesterday, you replied to this thread but I thought you were just an admin lol) it would be a good idea to also make a thread on /s/Saidit or /s/AskSaidit as the owner asking which features the community would like.

    Asking the popular communities and the newly arrived /s/Wayofthebern is a great idea as well, WOTB would have specific requests related to reddit migrations too.

    I always believe a website can be improved, and if you can't think of new features at least optimizing the ones existing or website performance is a good use of manpower as well. Anyway, here's the features that I personally thought of:

    • Ability to tag users. At this moment you can only tag with "friends", but having specific tags that they can be seen with the first letter of the tag (such as F which stands for friend) allows me to discern users based on my criteria. It's weird putting someone as "friend" when I believe they're important but wouldn't call them a "friend" in real life. I actually got banned on a sub because I added someone as a friend and told me and they believe I called them a real life friend lol. Also, a tag for the owner which would be yourself. Most people didn't know you were the owner, including me

    • Draft posts and comments. Slide app (for reddit) has that feature it's good to check it for inspiration

    • "Show karma breakdown by sub" being a privacy feature that I can enable for others to see mine if I so choose, disabled by default.

    • More acessibility tools. Integrate on the website itself the tools that blind people use to use reddit that certain apps made, it would be a good idea to talk to these app developers and ask them for assistance.

    • Allow subs to determine if a user can set their own thumbnail on a post

    • Have a limit of 5 posts at a time on /s/all from a specific community. /s/Wayofthebern basically has /s/all entirely for themselves and while this temporary because of the migration, this mechanism even existing that an entire community can take all is not preferable. So only having 5 posts at a time from a certain community (only keeping the currently top posts from the community determined by the saidit algorithm) is a good approach.

    • Disallow sticked posts from reaching all. This was a safety feature from reddit because /r/The_Donald kept abusing it and I aggre with the concept

    • Saying something like /s/Saidit links to a saidit sub. I would like that doing the same for /r/ something like /r/Reddit links to the correspondent reddit sub.

    • Something like the steam points system or the reddit awards. Something that would allow users to get more engagement. Like if you paid $8 a month like twitter blue and got a certain amount of awards you can give to users, and they would get points from these awards they could use. This could make the site more fun and help pay the bills (which can become a problem once the website gets big).

    • This is a big and very complex one and probably will use a lot of resources on saidit's servers and might even need to upgrade them (that's why the suggestion above this one would be helpful), but could help the site growth in the longrun. Basically a tool that allow to archive entire reddit communities on saidit. These communities would function differently than a saidit community, better even use /r/ (for reddit) or /ra/ (for reddit archive) instead of /s/. Basically save the comments, posts, upvotes, and deleted comments of this community. Users can't interact with it but could see it. Like a internet way back machine but solely for reddit. I'm not sure how it would work with copyrighted content though.

    • Finally, a downvote button. But make it different to reddit and only apply to new posts after this change as well. I understand your approach to the vote system on saidit but I still believe it's important for users to show a way to "disaggre" with a post. I dislike reddit's implementation too so here's how I would make one: Keep the "enlightening" button that awards a post 2 points and the "funny" button that awards 1 point, but add a "thumbs down" button that awards 0 points. It still doesn't allow a sub to brigade another and keeps trolls from messing posts but allows users of a sub to have a way to say they disaggre with a post instead of relying on the "ratio" mechanism. I think this would be a good approach to this.

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

    It's the underage porn that gives me the willies.