He's still a user:
Slashdot founder Rob Malda on why there won’t be another Hacker News (2013)
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Re: Slashdot founder Rob Malda on why there won’t be another Hacker News (2013)
#12> I think that the power has decentralized. Successful people on Twitter basically can fulfill a lot of that same role. You can follow Tim O'Reilly and Robert Scoble and Tim Lee and you can get a pretty good summary of what's happening around the universe.
This part was confusing, because it seemed like he was immediate contradicting himself: decentralizing by moving to platforms? Twitter and Reddit centralized power in online media, pulling content from the edges onto their platforms, and keeping people there. People abandoned their own websites and blogs because everyone just went to Twitter anyway. People abandoned their forums because people just went to Reddit. And the idea that Twitter and Reddit were decentralized in the sense that influencers had real power within those platforms was always naive, and of course has been put to the test and proven false many times since then (cf. people being banned on Twitter, or the current tempest involving moderators on Reddit). Maybe I misunderstood!
Re: Slashdot founder Rob Malda on why there won’t be another Hacker News (2013)
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#14> I think that the power has decentralized. Successful people on Twitter basically can fulfill a lot of that same role. You can follow Tim O'Reilly and Robert Scoble and Tim Lee and you can get a pretty good summary of what's happening around the universe. This part was confusing, because it seemed like he was immediate contradicting himself: decentralizing by moving to platforms? Twitter and Reddit centralized power…
I would read that as editorial/curatorial power being decentralized.
Re: Slashdot founder Rob Malda on why there won’t be another Hacker News (2013)
#15He's still a user: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=cmdrtaco
Hi.
Re: Slashdot founder Rob Malda on why there won’t be another Hacker News (2013)
#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
Can you provide some examples of what the aforementioned "incel culture" looks like?
You don't know what flaming is? And no I can't because there's no controversial threads at the moment. But the toxicity between users is awful.
So, how does that tie into incel culture?
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#20> Hacker News is awesome. It is probably my number one RSS feed right now. But it's getting too big. They've crossed the line that reddit crossed a long time ago. The value on reddit now is on the subreddits, not on the main page. Hacker News is wobbling on that space now. If I could just find someone who made a Hacker News digest, with the 10 best items from Hacker News, that would be a really good Slashdot. Interes…
> Interesting that even at the time he was completely wrong. No, I agree with Malda in general that people don't scale. A population larger that Dunbar's Number[1] acquires too much management scaffolding to retain Edenic charm. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar's_number
Didn’t Edenic charm already prove to fail at three (counting the snake)? ;)