"ScienceUncensored" is shorter and still to the point. I don't like the agro-conflict of "debate". The debate will be there regardless, as it is on all social media. "FreeSci" or "LibreSci" seem too short, but maybe. (Libresci looks Italian and sounds Polish with "ski".) "Free The Science" is nicely active - as we need action for solutions more than just documentation, IMO. Maybe all this is worth a discussion on /s/Cassy.

It seemed like a decent epiphany to me, though I was skeptical if any topic is worth trying to isolate like "science" (more like isolating from politics), but your great ideas are encouraging. I'm still not sure if an entire separate forum is even necessary, however, because it has a dedicated theme of extreme interest and need in these strange 5GW times perhaps there is a market. Not only would it be potentially great as a wedge into other communities (sciencey and/or intelligent, I would hope), it might be nice to tie it back to SaidIt somehow. Perhaps with enough clever folks interested we might find some coders that can build bridges between SaidIt and Lemmy or whatever, if needed.

Now that SaidIt code is being fixed I wonder if

We can also spread it to people that want to discuss topics outside of PigPharma.

If I understand you correctly, you're implying that I was only referring to the biggest, most obvious, worst corruption and regulatory capture - but we know very well that all of science and academia are corrupt through and through. I didn't have any limits in mind at all, though I agree that separate topical subs would be important for clarity, research, etc. (ie. "cold fusion or healing with illegal plants"). Having a FOTPACH (fair open transparent peaceful accountable consistent honest) social management system we could organize the topics and categories to be practical and efficient - and collectively determine when new subs are created and under what names (easy reference: Wikipedia categories).

Ironically perhaps, science pervades and affects all other topics, so essentially it's just a re-branding of sorts from a conspiracy/corruption/political perspective to a science/corruption perspective. Essentially much of the same but different, and hopefully the discourse would shift and elevate accordingly.

We also need some ways to avoid flat-earthers and shills. Some ranking system?

I don't think avoiding them is a solution, but we would need to develop open fair systems to manage the STABs (shills trolls and bots), sealions, and spam. Better ranking systems and/or metatags (and/or crypto) would be great - but that's a whole custom thing, perhaps better addressed with standalone modules inserted in the site (ie. SaidIt chat) or networked browser extensions. If they don't exist they'd have to be built. I also have lots of ideas about bridging between SaidIt, Facebook, and MediaWikis.

I don't code, but Nim sounds good. Ever use Nim /u/d3rr? Maybe I should learn one to build my bridges. Any chance I could just make those flowchart schematics? You'd think they'd make some visually oriented GUIs for coders.

/u/fschmidt and /u/LarrySwinger2 may find this conversation of interest.