Don't use Reddit. It's a monopolistic shithole

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[–]Bonn1770 6 insightful - 3 fun6 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 3 fun -  (5 children)

I've been a redditor since about 2012, and back then it was a lot like Saidit, there was almost no censorship, there were subs like /r/coontown and /r/watchpoeopledie, and we had free speech. Then the Ellen Pao thing happened and she was basically a scapegoat for the trannies to take over and make it into the woke echo chamber it is today. Reddit firing Victoria was really the canary in the coalmine moment. Even the hobbyist subs are going woke. If Saidit ever gets big it will be exactly the same result.

[–]RaverJodes[S] 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

Interesting. Thanks for the important history lesson behind it. Fuck I hope that doesn't happen to Saidit if it goes big. Someone needs to grow balls and make a social media that sticks to its principles

[–]Vulptex 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

I doubt saidit will get big. It's a reddit fork and normies will always see it as crappy for that reason. That may be a good thing.

Ruqqus had the most potential to become the next reddit. Unfortunately the admins became corrupt so fast it closed down in 2 years when they realized their users weren't going to accept them banning everything they didn't like. I called it over a year in advance when I saw pre-cabal red flags with certain people on Discord. Everyone thought I was a lunatic.

[–]hfxB0oyA 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

I'm liking that the normies see this place as not worth their time. It has an old school BBS vibe here.

[–]ShekelPa 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

It is the natural order of things as far as online spaces go. When one place gets too big, it becomes corrupted, and people jump ship and flee or create new alternatives. As long as people have that ability and others share amongst each other these new places, then there will be enough delocalization of traffic to prevent any site from becoming too big for its own good prior to its subsequent corruption.

[–]JasonCarswellMental Orgy 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

SaidIt won't go big because magnora7 is a shitty owner/"leader".

I'll facilitate decentralized platforms for open communities but I'm not an I.T. guru and can't do it alone.