April 1st, aka April Fools, I posted and/or commented about starting SaidIt2.com with Larry. We'd been talking about it. And it seems like something worth trying. We've been taking our sweet time.

If you have ideas for it, share them under /s/SaidIt2, an open-discussion sub about organizing all things "SaidIt2" - from the TrustedTeam self-policing community idea, policy improvement ideas, new sub curation ideas, feature wish lists, policy wish lists, other wish lists, community ideas, and constructive notes on all things.

Ideally it would be great if x0x7 and d3rr were able to help with back-end stuff, even if all they do is nothing until emergencies occur.

It's critically important to be clear that SaidIt2 should not be any kind of competition with SubMatrix (including GoatMatrix), but rather a collaboration. It's way beyond me to know how to interconnect them besides cross-promotion, but maybe it can be done.

So why bother? A while ago X0X7 wrote a great paragraph (I wish I could link it) about the problems with decentralization. It rocked my world. Those concepts still do. My very first sub on SaidIt was /s/DecentralizeAllThings, and despite the XO paradigm shift, IMO, we still need decentralization in some things. All eggs in one basket is a recipe for scrambled disaster, sooner or later.

The whole point, as I see it (as I have the domains and I will host it, as Larry will build it), is to have our community help, not be dependent on daddy government or daddy magnora or Jewson Bikeswell, or whatever. No egos, no dictators, no demagogues - just the earned TrustedTeam™ and the community at large to decide what is what, based on the founding documents (to be developed and determined). It's another social media experiment, perhaps useful as a backup, maybe even enough to grow into a community, or maybe it will languish with little to no use. If we don't try, we'll never know. And the parasites that be are trying to censor and shut down every avenue of communications they don't control.

In addition to the founding documents (with our mission, goals, guidelines, rules, etc.), we'd need to develop a roadmap, along with pragmatic benchmarks and realistic desired outcomes.

Like it or not, and with veto power, I believe there is more than enough negativity out there online - so, following X0X7's lead, rather than be like the old SaidIt, the new SaidIt2 will focus on civility, respect, intelligent, insightful discourse and freedom of expression (not noise).

One thing is for sure - I'm not doing this alone, and can't/won't do it without you, sooner or later.