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Something I noticed about Slashdot was that it started out talking about the latest processors, software, and Linux kernel patches. Then the conversation ever-so-slowly started drifting towards CEOs, the sharemarket, politics, and the like. It's a side-effect of an aging user base. Young people get excited about New Things! With big numbers! Older people get bored of the latest technological advancements and instead…
Slashdot got bought by a (((company))) linked to porn. The reason these companies buy news/comment sites as slashdot is to command and manage the narratives. Something bad about my companies? Downvote 10x. shadowban. Lets make that product feature in popular.. Thus the sites dwindle and loose the reputation. There would not be a site with news or popular that can have free discussion or "fairness". That would be too…
When you want make a technology you are fun like tech pioneers and when you want to the profit from a technology you are startup builder like PG, Musk, Gates, Bezos
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This sounds bad but mild shame helps keep a community working Any time someone hits out with a pun or whatever comment someone will say "this isn't reddit" and the comment is made hard to read - over time I have to imagine that has helped keep it from becoming reddit Of course I am also burying the lede a bit. Paid and dedicated (I think?) moderators is an absolute key factor too
Paid, not sure, but I've lurked around here enough to verify the dedication. The mods not only curate and consolidate multiple links (e.g., 3+ things that said Facebook was down this last week), but they also openly communicate what they did.
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> There was a time not so long ago where it seemed like every third article on HN was about yet another JavaScript framework. I know it feels this way but it was in fact a very long time ago. That was 2011-2012ish IIRC
It did definitely drag on for far longer than that. 2009-2012 was the time of post-jQuery, with a lot of discourse around better alternatives to that (e.g. underscore.js, backbone.js). React was released in 2013, which sparked a lot of offshoots. Vue came in 2014, and Angular in 2016, which I would say is the earliest point where you could see a significant drop in the activity.
2011-2014 was the time everything that could be written in js was written in js. Didn't matter if it was a good idea, I just loved the energy here!
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There might be some to that, but having bottom quartile infection rates while containing an eighth of the US population seems like a strong statement from any angle.
Infection rates are, by definition, adjusted for population. In a pandemic, you may want to talk about rates given population density, but California is in the middle of the pack there (even Florida is more dense.)
Probably something to do with a lot of us becoming pawns in silicon valley's carefully orchestrated theater. Maybe combined with mass media grappling harder and harder for people's attention as their precious TV dies out. Looks like to be quite potent resulting in people posting a lot about politics and business.
I can tell you for sure that the moderators here don't give a shit about "silicon valley's carefully orchestrated theater" or any other orchestrated theater. The only orchestration is trying to have a site with the most (intellectually) interesting articles. People disagree a lot about what's intellectually interesting—that's all that's going on here. If you or anyone finds other things more intellectually interestin…
And I agree moderators are concerned with other things.
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Indeed, such an improvement would have to be insisted upon by the demos . But the res publica has NEVER been a democracy at any point. What we have is a gnarly attempt to scale from the individual to the group, the singular to the plural, the integer to the list(integer). Hence my comment: technically savvier people like those who visit this site badly need to give this res publica an enema.
Engineers of all people should know that scaling is best achieved by distributed systems.
Admittedly, this many years on, it's hard to introduce fresh concepts. The only way for such smaller units of analysis to achieve any gravitas would be to acquire the notoriety of the States. . .