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[–]nordmannenLegionnaire 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (10 children)

Personally I've been burned out in this place. Not because of anyone in DAR but between the site outages, the TAM fiasco last year, the back and forth with magnora7, and the front page being filled with contemptible boomers and shitty content. We are a debate sub and we are stagnant here. I think the crusade should continue on .win, but I understand not wanting to abandon an already established platform.

[–]ifuckredditsnitches_Resident Pajeet 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (7 children)

the TAM fiasco last year, the back and forth with magnora7

What happened with this lmao

[–]nordmannenLegionnaire 5 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 3 fun -  (6 children)

I'm not terribly keen on airing old laundry, but when TAM power tripped, he banned u/JasonCarswell for his ongoing crusade against socks. JC happened to be one of the few saiditters I liked. There was a thread about it, and everyone who voiced their opinion against TAM was blocked from posting anywhere site-wide. I don't remember how many DAR members were in the thread, but I know u/Dragonerne also felt the wrath of the teenaged tranny. I guess after TAM took his meds he scrubbed everything and disappeared.

As for magnora7, I can't say he has inspired much confidence in me. The site outages point me to incompetence, but this s/all stuff points me to maliciousness. I'd much prefer site admins that don't get involved with the affairs of their users or manipulate the communities to obtain a more profitable and "sanitized" site. It's clear that's the end goal, so long term I don't think we can stay here.

Edit for clarification: fuck socks, he still has yet to show me his 23andme

[–]JasonCarswellVoluntaryist 5 insightful - 4 fun5 insightful - 3 fun6 insightful - 4 fun -  (3 children)

Thanks for the fine breakdown. Worth noting is a week later /u/d3rr took over from TAM and was the best admin (and restored DAR to the front page) until M7 showed back up.

The fellow formerly known as d3rr and I may eventually make a couple Lemmy sites. One for "elevated discourse" and "Uncensored Science" that is "controlled", and the other for "free speech" and "Uncensored Politics" that is unbridled with all the problems that may arise there.

I mention this because whether it's DAR or us or whoever, and the resources can be mustered, it might be nice to dev a crossposting browser addon. It would be nice to draft a post or comment that would be mirrored/shared on SaidIt, .win, Lemmy, and maybe other Reddit-like forums or social media.

IMO decentralizing is critical - and so is bridging.

Fuck socks.
May he leave SaidIt forever on good or bad terms - or better: simply quit the bullshit.

[–]MarkimusNational Socialist 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (2 children)

I think you'd like the other site tbh, this sub in particular seems to be all about the kind of stuff you talk about and it's just really starting up. You could probably work with those guys.

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

HUGE GRATITUDE!!!

A very cool community indeed!

And they have a wiki: https://ParallelSociety.win/

I may be tempted to abandon SaidIt.

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

I'll see you over there😎👍

[–]DragonerneJesus is white 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I am still here, just not as active as before. The dooming of the internet was taking a toll on my mental health and I have been more active IRL + women + parties + fitness + work + study + family/friends.

This is still the #1 intellectual space on the internet with the best takes but I'm taking over IRL

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

o7 godspeed, sir

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

Yeah, that's true. The boomer meme posts arw cringe but you can simply get erid of that by using your friends or subscribes list of aubs as your main.

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

I'd prefer to keep a finger on the pulse of the general community, for better or for worse. As I've been saying about DAR, we are meant to be a debate sub, so seeing what gets the most attention and discussion is important to me. And, maybe more importantly, the front page of this site being a bunch of retarded boomer memes doesn't really encourage disillusioned redditers to come here. I don't really know what can be done about it, I just know I'm far from the first person that has an issue with this. I want to continue to have faith in saidit, but it looks to me like the community is more or less stagnant, and it's made worse when boomer tard posts find their way to s/all and our sub has to fight for the same privilege. I'm aware I can personally make my experience better on saidit by ignoring parts of the site, but that doesn't really help me or anyone else who is annoyed with the situation.