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* Reddit is a cesspit waiting to fail that encourages abuse as a platform. I am waiting for what replaces them as there is a lot of information people are looki

* Reddit is a cesspit waiting to fail that encourages abuse as a platform. I am waiting for what replaces them as there is a lot of information people are looking to share without the torrent of garbage that comes with it currently. * Slashdot faded because new buyers came in who didn't understand the product. * RSS still exists and is going strong. It just does the job without the flash, the reason content producers don't like it is that you can't monetize it in the same way as email. I personally use TheOldReader for curating this. * I'm going to add Sourceforge as a site that shot themselves in the face. It seems like it's newest owners have done a lot to try and repair the damage. Raindrop looks fantastic, I'm glad you brought it up. I'm guessing we few are the kind of people keeping this type of service alive.

lolsal 9y ago
What do you mean, 'waiting to fail'? How long should we wait? A decade? Two decades? The success of reddit would seem to be at odds with your opinion.
mullingitover 9y ago
> Reddit is a cesspit waiting to fail that encourages abuse as a platform. People mistake reddit for a single bulletin board, because it allows you to aggregate multiple subreddits, and criticize it like it's a single place. In reality it's just a free hosted bulletin board service. As such, it's just a cross-section of the internet, and to criticize reddit is to criticize the abstract concept of internet fora. There are serious places like /AskHistorians in there, along with many others. There are bad neighborhoods/poorly moderated fora in there, but that doesn't make reddit itself a cesspool any more than the existence of Skid Row makes Los Angeles County a cesspool.
hevisko 9y ago
Aren't Slashdot & sourceforge owned by the same owners at present? which also owns and frozen freshmeat (that was later renamed freecode or something)

lolsal 9y ago

What do you mean, 'waiting to fail'? How long should we wait? A decade? Two decades? The success of reddit would seem to be at odds with your opinion.

mullingitover 9y ago

> Reddit is a cesspit waiting to fail that encourages abuse as a platform. People mistake reddit for a single bulletin board, because it allows you to aggregate multiple subreddits, and criticize it like it's a single place. In reality it's just a free hosted bulletin board service. As such, it's just a cross-section of the internet, and to criticize reddit is to criticize the abstract concept of internet fora. There are serious places like /AskHistorians in there, along with many others. There are bad neighborhoods/poorly moderated fora in there, but that doesn't make reddit itself a cesspool any more than the existence of Skid Row makes Los Angeles County a cesspool.

hevisko 9y ago

Aren't Slashdot & sourceforge owned by the same owners at present? which also owns and frozen freshmeat (that was later renamed freecode or something)