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A laudable idea but why restrict it to the protests? There's a problem with police brutality in lots of places and at lots of times (even just the perception of it), perhaps a more standard way to report and record which can be replicated easily and hence, compared better, might be an idea. (As I was writing an issue opened up on this kind of point https://github.com/2020PB/police-brutality/issues/83)

It seems to me that the current set up excludes the vast majority of people (who are unlikely to know markdown, Git, or Github) which limits its effectiveness.

>>brigan+(OP)
(Not the author) I like Git for the decentralization and ease of someone backing it all up. Agree that there's a huge usability cliff for anyone outside our circle that wants to contribute.

Maybe a good add-on project for someone is creating a website where potential new incidents can be submitted and evaluated, then pulled into the repo automatically if they pass muster.

>>brigan+(OP)
Right now there is so much first person documentation of these acts pouring into Twitter, Reddit, Snapchat's Map, and Tiktok. This is the time to make sure there is a simple way to document all of this so it can be organized later. System perfection is the enemy of preservation here. Anything helps and taking time to make those UI layers could lose valuable documentation in the shuffle.

Git's UI will absolutely limit the contributing audience, I agree - Perhaps the author could add a simple form for people to submit through and then technical people could manually add them? Google Form/Jotform/Survey Monkey style?

>>akerst+p
A simple google form or google sheet that feeds into the Git repo would open up contributions from the other 95% of the populace!

>>brigan+(OP)
There's already a few more general repos out there. For example, this one focuses on US attrocities: https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/master/us_atrociti...

And this one is a general one about America's shit: https://github.com/mikeizbicki/american-shit (disclaimer: it's my repo)

>>akerst+p
If Reddit wasn't censored, you could use that, but you'd need moderators to manage duplicates and spam. Backing up Reddit pages / posts / videos should be fairly straightforward. If anything it's a lot more accessible to anyone because you can e.g. post from mobile.