before settling on lemmy, i checked out “reddit alternatives” and one of them was saidit. i may make an account if it’s good, but i want to know if saidit.net is any good, what it’s like, etc.

  • @[email protected]
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    214 days ago

    Pros of Saidit compared to Lemmy: Chill people, bans are rare, not trying to squeeze your wallet, there’s a chatroom

    Cons of Saidit compared to Lemmy: Images are outsourced, there aren’t as many people, and every three conversations will randomly devolve into one about anti-semitism

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    I just looked at the front page and based on that and the comments here it’s another right wing echo chamber. as of writing this, the third post on the front page is a Twitter link to “End Wokeness”, which is complaining about Muslim women https://saidit.net/s/whatever/comments/gtqn/this_is_how_women_are_forced_to_dress_out_in/ the comments should tell you everything you need to know.

    Archives of the front page ain’t looking good either https://web.archive.org/web/20250501003656/https://saidit.net/

    It’s a hard pass for me

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    Years back when I checked it out it was full of people into conspiracy theories and general bigotry. Interestingly they weren’t specifically right-wing at the time and in fact when the site was originally started it was named something like antiextremes as a reference to not wanting to be left or right leaning.

    But you know, over time it just kind of filled up with the types of people that typically got banned on mainstream sites like Reddit. You’ll get an idea of how people in general are there by reading through the posts and comments there.

    • jan Teten (ona meli)OP
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      But you know, over time it just kind of filled up with the types of people that typically got banned on mainstream sites like Reddit.

      I agree with this, it is listed as anti extreme on a page I found on it but people got banned from reddit and seemed to make communities like LGB drop the T