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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[–]theFriendlyDoomer 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 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 -  (3 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 -  (2 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)

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.