Another ban wave just happened.

cloudrabbit · 2020-07-12T02:47:32+00:00

Is it even possible to build a decently-sized startup without selling your soul to venture capitalists?

cloudrabbit · 2020-07-12T02:43:52+00:00

Yeah. Maybe /u/magnora7 would want to look into it.

cloudrabbit · 2020-07-11T12:25:16+00:00

We're on saidit.net, not saidit.com. I think the owner of saidit.com domain realized the owner of saidit.net domain (or anyone else) might want to buy it, seeing the saidit's rising popularity.

cloudrabbit · 2020-07-11T07:37:02+00:00

transhumanists

Damn why them?!

cloudrabbit · 2020-07-11T07:23:30+00:00

I don't like that both sites are essentially copies of reddit as far as design. I think saidit is ugly while ruqqus is just another modern web dev/javascript whore site

What would be a good site design then?

cloudrabbit · 2020-07-10T23:59:20+00:00

But at least there are no downvotes here. That should count for something. People won't be afraid to speak their minds.

cloudrabbit · 2020-07-08T07:44:12+00:00

Could you link some of such scripted replies? How do you determine them? Do they actually make it on top?

cloudrabbit · 2020-07-07T20:48:53+00:00

Dead giveaway of shadowbanning: if your account is very new and low-karma you should be restricted to 1 comment per 5 minutes or so. If you're shadowbanned the restriction magically disappears.

cloudrabbit · 2020-07-07T18:44:55+00:00

Because forums are a different thing. You don't have a tree-like comment structure on forums; you also don't access a forum via /r/, /s/ path suffix, it's usually more nested.

cloudrabbit · 2020-07-07T04:57:51+00:00

I vote for saddit & subsaddits then :)

cloudrabbit · 2020-07-07T00:00:18+00:00

cloudrabbit · 2020-07-06T23:03:27+00:00

What about passwords? How do you memorize passwords for so many accounts? And the account/email usernames?

cloudrabbit · 2020-07-06T22:57:59+00:00

What will happen if I were to repost it to /r/videos?

cloudrabbit · 2020-07-05T15:09:53+00:00

Nice gatekeeping

cloudrabbit · 2020-07-04T12:44:40+00:00

For that you'd have /s/flatearth and /s/debateflatearth

cloudrabbit · 2020-07-03T23:01:56+00:00

What is the carrot in this metaphor and how is it going to be taken away?

cloudrabbit · 2020-07-03T22:31:40+00:00

idk about how /hot posts are formed. Maybe that'd be enough to get the same results. I'm just a bit of a perfectionist and prefer to check the votes myself vs relying on what reddit would put in /hot ; )

cloudrabbit · 2020-07-03T22:24:13+00:00

imo the most important is the text content - for instance, long text posts with over N words and over K upvotes? So the bot could monitor all posts coming in /new and check on them several days later - if the number of upvotes exceeds the K threshold, it'd repost them. Just hoping there are people here who might get interested in the idea.

cloudrabbit · 2020-07-03T20:42:20+00:00

Yeah, but it's not like they can do anything about it? The bot wouldn't need any special permissions on Reddit. And to keep things fair it could even add the link to the post it copied stuff from.

cloudrabbit · 2020-07-03T19:05:46+00:00

I can access it just fine.

cloudrabbit · 2020-07-03T18:42:36+00:00

Nothing against certain subsaidits (subsaids? sub... fuck it.)

Lol that gets to me too. And I get bad associations with Saudi Arabia. I wish the site was called saddit. Kinda like reddit isn't called readit.

cloudrabbit · 2020-07-03T12:12:07+00:00

What was spez' contribution when Reddit was starting out?

cloudrabbit · 2020-07-03T11:22:31+00:00

Slashdot.org has been using a slithering scale system of tiered voting for years. It's become a chaotic hellhole.

Why? I was also wondering if adding Agree/Disagree buttons could help. They wouldn't give or deduct any points, but if someone's frustrated with a comment, it could help prevent them from maliciously using the lowest vote on that scale. Oh and also maybe the pyramid votes shouldn't deduct points at all? The lowest 3 votes could be 0 idk

Saidit has gone the stolen code route.

But it was opensource? What was its license?

They lawyers can shut it down, the servers can be moved to a more accommodating jurisdiction

If it's a concern, the admins could start working on their own code version if saidit gets big enough to be in danger?

cloudrabbit · 2020-07-03T11:20:14+00:00

A very good idea! And it would help to differentiate saidit from its scompetitors.

cloudrabbit · 2020-07-03T11:14:25+00:00

literally this

(jk)

Sometimes I went through like 50 comments, each of them being some variation of a meme or reddit catchphrase or of an opinion that at that point was reddit majority.

cloudrabbit · 2020-07-03T11:12:33+00:00

You spoke your native language on that subreddit, not English? Then I wonder how that's possible. Wouldn't expect many American TRA to know anything other than English. Did their comments have a non-native feel to them?

cloudrabbit · 2020-07-03T00:41:47+00:00

i got banned at reddit for saying black people have the lowest IQ

what were you - suicidal ? lmao in a place where you get banned for whispering you were shouting

cloudrabbit · 2020-07-02T15:30:52+00:00

This site is operating off of donations. So, what is more likely to happen is that the domain will be stolen by the DNS host and then CloudFlare will kick them off. Of course, this will happen after the payment processors and/or bank accounts are turned off.

Damn could you elaborate? How is that legally possible?

cloudrabbit · 2020-07-02T15:29:50+00:00

Lol this comment is just perfect description of their behaviour.

cloudrabbit · 2020-07-02T13:37:07+00:00

Tell you the truth, if it would not involve tying my identity to the code, and thus damaging any future reputation with the "establishment" companies, I would have started working on a specific reddit clone years ago.

Making a reddit clone could damage one's reputation with tech giants? Wow!

Say there are people who create the thedonaldwin site. Should they hide the fact they've made that site or false discrimination during job interviews?

cloudrabbit · 2020-07-02T00:28:43+00:00

ruqqus is down, yeah, that's why I went for saidis + because the interface was 100% familiar. But I'm personally 50/50 on the old interface - I kinda like the modern look, even if the old one has less distractions. I worry most people would prefer the modern look of ruqqus and getting additional hosting infrustructure + optimizing the site is just a matter of time and they seem to be working on it right now.

cloudrabbit · 2020-07-01T23:56:52+00:00

How s saidit going to compete with ruqqus?

cloudrabbit · 2020-07-01T21:01:33+00:00

Fuck USA for this one. It killed a lot of natural creativity in young people trying to change the world, because studying in this time means a full schedule so you got almost no time to actually reflect on what you are studying

That depends. In my uni - which was one of the best in my country - we actually got plenty of free time. Granted I wasn't that social myself, but then it's always a compromise between work and leisure and no system would change that.

Soon i won't need to read their fucked up "specialist" job descriptions anymore, because i will decide, which people we hire

Lol that's familiar. I'm learning programming and when I try to motivate myself with job descriptions I just get more depressed. Don't appreciate the idea of working for a corporation that would get rich off me. And do bad shit. Reddit has lots of employees who were ordered to do shit they did after all...

This is how some famous people studied completely alone, before they fucked up our university teaching system

Yes, but they lived in - before 20th century? There was less to learn back then, isn't it so?

cloudrabbit · 2020-07-01T20:56:59+00:00

Some /r/ABoringDystopia material

cloudrabbit · 2020-07-01T20:17:00+00:00

switch the direction of my own studies to more engineering

Are you an engineering major? If not, wonder how one studies it outside of university?

cloudrabbit · 2020-07-01T20:16:07+00:00

try to hack the open-source community politically with money

Could you elaborate?

cloudrabbit · 2020-07-01T19:19:27+00:00

Thank you kind stranger!

cloudrabbit · 2020-07-01T18:41:15+00:00

Reddit is apparently only good for anime and video games

You forgot cat pics ; )

cloudrabbit · 2020-07-01T17:46:48+00:00

Aaron Swartz

It always makes me sad reading his name. His story broke my heart. Anyone's interested should watch Internet's own boy movie.

cloudrabbit · 2020-07-01T17:39:40+00:00

I mean, I don't have anything against subs not wanting outsiders inside. Because that would mean every post just turns into discussion in comments. On Reddit GC had a debate sub, which is a good approach, imo. And there would be a selection bias there - people looking and able to debate would go there + those who want to see the arguments of both sides can easily find them.

And as for preventing a sub from turning into an echo-chamber, I liked this approach I've seen on some reddit subs: occasionally, say once every two weeks, a thread called Unpopular opinions is made where subscribers share how their opinion is different from the majority opinion of the sub. Comments in such threads were always interesting to read and were not downvoted.

cloudrabbit · 2020-07-01T17:29:55+00:00

Yeah it's funny. Imagine a site that consists of all the communities banned from reddit. What a company that would have been! The_Donald, incels, conservatives, feminists, ultra-left wing (like that Chappo subreddit? although I heard that was a martyr for an excuse to ban TD). I never thought a day would come when I'd feel kinship with all those groups, but now I do. IMO unless a group promotes violence, they shouldn't be banned.

cloudrabbit · 2020-07-01T15:46:35+00:00

Spot on about psychology & learning how they think. My reason for browsing conservative/right-wing communities.

what was before sexual harassment is now called rape

So true! Now the word 'rape' doesn't mean anything, because it's been overused and lost its meaning.

cloudrabbit · 2020-07-01T15:41:33+00:00

I'd expect people at trans subs still to rant about TERFs and GenderCritical and all that. imo we should make sure that people who get curious about those terms find this place

cloudrabbit · 2020-07-01T15:06:02+00:00

I've also been reading a book about the origins of heresy in Christianity in the middle ages

What book?

cloudrabbit · 2020-07-01T00:35:39+00:00

What have you been doing with those accounts to trigger the bans?

cloudrabbit · 2020-06-30T16:12:08+00:00

I forgot to mention our 6th adopted child is black, so no.

cloudrabbit · 2020-06-30T15:50:50+00:00

hmm I see. But then it'd require people to click on funny for memes. I feel like many would just click on the closest upvote button; or click both

cloudrabbit · 2020-06-30T15:45:19+00:00

Could you elaborate on the upvote system? It only seems to have two 'positive' ratings: insightful and fun. No downvoting. How would it make it easier to sort through memes?

cloudrabbit · 2020-06-30T15:39:37+00:00

Already have the best family. All-white, 5 kids, go to Church every Sunday. Where's your family?

cloudrabbit · 2020-06-30T13:19:51+00:00

I found the link on /r/LGBDropTheT - their AutoModerator posts it on top of each post's comment section. People from the banned sub are reading discussions on /r/WatchRedditDie, /r/DeclineIntoCensorshipand GC-similar survived (for now) subreddits. Those are the places to post. + Individually PMing users from GC (can find them on web archives of posts and comments) and asking them to spread the word, to say, 3 other people

cloudrabbit · 2020-06-30T12:50:19+00:00

horseshoe theory

Proponents of horseshoe theory argue that the extreme left and the extreme right are closer to each other than either is to the political center

cloudrabbit · 2020-06-30T12:35:17+00:00

damn now that reads like a pornhub comment feed

cloudrabbit · 2020-06-30T12:07:07+00:00

Wow that's a news to me. I'm in a kinda conservative country and to most people homosexuality is still much more preferable to trans - and even about homosexuality what most don't like is the stuff from the parades where people are over-the-top being naked etc. The parents here would much rather prefer a gay child who didn't harm themselves with hormones/surgeries.

I get you, I recently joined a conservatives discord curious about their opinions about reddit bans. Have just checked their chat again and bingo - they are in the middle of a circle-jerk about how men and women are different and they 'have no overlap' of the way they are/think/behave, but rather 'just parallel distribution'. Honestly I wouldn't mind conservatives at all if they didn't try to impose that stuff on me. And to me - and all women I suppose - the stakes in this battle are always much higher - my freedom - personal, financial, medical - is at stake, while to them it's about merely being the majority in society, and being able to be more openly vocal and open about their beliefs.

cloudrabbit · 2020-06-30T11:52:42+00:00

Hey and wecome!

The no filter by race is a news to me and it's both amusing and shitty. What's next? Can't filter by weight because it's not body positive or is fatphobic?

cloudrabbit · 2020-06-30T05:54:19+00:00

I thought a perfect description of it, it went something like: the bans a few years ago banned 70% witches (bad actors) and 30% good users. Today it's vice versa and Reddit will lose alienate many good users who they merely call the witches but who are not ones.

cloudrabbit · 2020-06-30T05:19:07+00:00

It seems that we have common enemies, though. Both of us suffer from the same censorship these days.

cloudrabbit · 2020-06-30T05:18:07+00:00

I meant that they are critical of trans ideology.

cloudrabbit · 2020-06-30T04:57:13+00:00

Wow! That's awesome, thank you so much! I only knew of removeddit, but now will try look for stuff on https://www.rareddit.com/ as well!

cloudrabbit · 2020-06-30T04:41:37+00:00

Pass the message - link this site on as many reddit comments (in relevant subreddits/discussions where potential refugees are probably reading) as you can.

cloudrabbit · 2020-06-30T04:38:30+00:00

Well, for one, conservatives are usually gender critical. They also seem more reasonable when it comes to other leftist craziness - for instance the BLM stuff (talking about non-racist conservatives obviously) - those who don't support violent protests, looting, but admit race discrimination exists. However if you mention it on left-leaning subs, you're the bad racist guy.

cloudrabbit · 2020-06-30T04:28:57+00:00

Also can use webarchive of the old.reddit.com to get usernames of posters: https://web.archive.org/web/20200204004730/https://old.reddit.com/r/GenderCritical/

cloudrabbit · 2020-06-30T04:24:23+00:00

Only the main page, isn't it? Can't see full posts and comments ; (

cloudrabbit · 2020-06-30T04:20:53+00:00

Post the link to this saidit on /r/LGBdropTheT, /r/itsafetish, places like that. Any pro-women subreddits that could have users from GC. Also on /r/RedditAlternatives and /r/DeclineIntoCensorship (I think) which have posts about banned subreddits.

cloudrabbit · 2020-06-30T04:14:52+00:00

As much as I dislike conservatism, in this day and age I feel like they are the sane ones on many issues.

cloudrabbit · 2020-06-30T04:08:34+00:00

Damn I looked at that archive linked and saw this as one of the top posts:

I'm finding the physical strength gap between men and women really depressing.

I honestly don't think I would be as bothered about this if there weren't so many violent men around. Fortunately since I'm fairly young and grew up in a protected environment I haven't had any bad experiences so far but as a smaller woman myself (being 5'1 and about 100 pounds) the idea that virtually any man could hurt me easily if he wanted to makes me feel incredibly weak and vulnerable.

This is exacerbated when I hear about studies showing that the weakest man in the study could punch harder than the strongest woman, and the gap in strength is actually huge and lots of women who train hard and work out seriously are still completely outmatched in strength by a couch-potato man who's never been to a gym in his entire life. I think this is part of the main issue for me - I wouldn't work out for the purpose of trying to "get as strong as a man" but it's very depressing that even if I did work out and train, I would probably have to become a full on bodybuilder to even get close to the

That really resonated but now I can't read the full post or the comments. Another reminder of what we lost.

cloudrabbit