Newcomers: Let's make sure Saidit is better than Reddit. This shouldn't be a place to waste time, but to have productive and intelligent discussions.

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[–]PurpleAmathea 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (7 children)

I am kind of hoping for mirrors of unbanned reddit subs.

I liked r/askreddit, I liked r/redditgetsdrawn, I liked r/adorabledragons, I don't want to be on reddit anymore but none of the refugee sites are bothering with also transferring innocuous communities of fluff.

[–]theFriendlyDoomer 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

This will be the real test of if the site works. Life can't just be political and moral posturing. I imagine that r/redditgetsdrawn would be hard to replicate, but s/asksaidit exits. It's now nothing but the politics and questions about reddit/saidit, but it might be a place to invest some attention.

One idea is to just mirror content. So, if reddit has a link, make a saidit post and have the discussion occur here. I'll try to check s/asksaidit and be a person starting out on the dance floor if it helps you out. Once you get out of the probation period, make a mirror sub and drop me a line and I'll consider putting in some of that community building energy.

[–]PurpleAmathea 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (5 children)

Thanks!

I wonder if the admins would consider reducing the new sub period. Two weeks is harsh, but a week pause between each after is also. It wouldn't be if the site was already up and running with lots of subs...

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

Yeah. I'm going to need other content than people's politics to stay sane here. I've long since gotten desensitized to racial slurs and scapegoating to the point that I don't feel indignant, but . . . bored.

I didn't have any of my normal stuff taken out by The Purge, so I have a bit of a buffer. But, yeah, my mission is to play court jester for a while to help people settle. That is my micro-political act of civil libertarianism, or . . . whatever.

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

Basically the same.

Which normal users have already been here for two weeks? Maybe a bunch of people can collaborate to make some fun subs.

(meanwhile I'm trying to figure out how to unsubscribe from some of the worse defaults. It's funny, I'm pretty grossed out by stuff here, but I can shrug and be like "oh well, that's what happens when you declare a witch hunt free island, you get a lot of witches" (rip ssc) whereas reddit was just... Either allow disgusting stuff or don't allow disgusting stuff, don't only disallow disgusting stuff that happens to not be politically aligned with you.

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

RIP SSC indeed.

God, these are dark times. If Scott can't make in this world, what hope is there for the rest of us?

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

so I've been looking through the list of all subs. There are a lot of non-political subs here, just most are dead, or filled with spam/unrelated content, or filled with weirdos who might also be spam.

but I'm slowly finding sort of normalish ones. There's s/aww, s/writing, s/fitness, s/art, s/cats...

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

After my 2-weeks are up, in addition to cloning my main project r/weirdcollapse, I think I might start s/forNormies. For now, my plan is to be the change I want to see in s/askSaidit and help some of you kind people in specific subs if asked.