Where is saidit hosted / based?

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

If you aren't running this as a proper business, you are making yourself personally liable for anything that happens on this site.

I don't think that statement is accurate, in my understanding. I can see where you're coming from, but I think you're a bit misguided. What would we get in trouble for, what is this scenario you're imagining that incorporating or forming an LLC would protect us from?

[–][deleted] 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (5 children)

Because of what the "LL" in "LLC" stands for --- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limited_liability

If you don't have a company, any judgments or penalties against saidit will apply to you personally, since saidit doesn't even exist as a legal entity. If some bullshit copyright lawsuit gets awarded millions of dollars in damages, that's your debt for the rest of your life.

[–]magnora7 8 insightful - 2 fun8 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

How can they sue us for copyright when we are losing money by running it? It's not a business, it's a non-profit, and those have different rules. We're following the open-source rules for reddit's code to the letter. I don't think an LLC provides nearly the protection you think it does, and I speak from experience.

[–]ikidd 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

I would turf this thread, it doesn't benefit anyone and is more of a personal nature to you and your other Admin.

He's not wrong, though it has no effect on your users, deleting their account was silly. You're small potatoes to the copyright holders at this point, but abstracting your involvement by shifting servers out of the US (maybe swiss?) would be a good move.

You might take some direction from opensource project governance procedures, I'm not sure if they run under LLCs typically, but being considered opensource does get you away from some levels of responsibility for the actions of the people that use your platform.

[–][deleted] 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

IMO this site is about to get huge as reddit kills itself, could be wrong I just see some tea leaves, it doesn't matter now but might in the future where the MSM, the rich etc try to take this down if it doesn't censor tings like reddit did. But this should be a discussion magnora or whomever is involved has behind closed doors.

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

Unfortunately, I don't see Reddit dying off anytime soon. Instead, I think it's going to go the way of Facebook and just devolve into a platform where corporations promote/influence certain posts and the rest are silenced. The company site is just way too big and a lot of people stopped caring about the crap they do - just like with Facebook. Even with the whole scandal, literally every one of my friends still use the site daily.

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

true