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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)

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Post by basch »

isaacremuant wrote: post #50
sctb wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I would read that as editorial/curatorial power being decentralized.

The sad fact is that the fediverse has the worse of both worlds where, in the end, it still seems like following a block list of an admin who is accountable to no one (instead of a popular person with some specific track record) and the fragmentation means the discoverability and interaction is minimal. Until there's a way where one user can decide what instances to see, it will be a crap experience unless you agree…

having each persons identity tied to the instance makes the whole thing way too unstable and centralized. identity needs to exist outside the bounds of instances.

Re: Slashdot founder Rob Malda on why there won’t be another Hacker News (2013)

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Post by Karrot_Kream »

nullindividual wrote: post #29
skilled wrote: post #3

> 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. Within the past few months, I've started to see more low effort comment posting, submissions way outside of what many thing HN on-topic to be, and I've flagged more submissions/comments in the past handful of days than I ever have. HN is becoming something like a proto-popular reddit. EDIT: Since the above sounds like doom-and-gloom for HN, I want to say it…

HN has had a huge influx in users since December, probably a result of the Twitter ownership transition and the Reddit blackout. I tend to agree that a lot of the worse elements of those posting cultures are starting to leak through here and HN is starting to feel more like a generic tech subreddit but I'm not sure whether that'll be sustained or not.

Re: Slashdot founder Rob Malda on why there won’t be another Hacker News (2013)

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Post by morelisp »

basch wrote: post #47
cmdrtaco wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Has-beenternet

still-ahead-of-its-time. the new llm craze should make moderation and metamoderation even easier. i think we will see a resurgence of some slashdot inventions, albeit more automated. collect votes from power users. extrapolate how they would have voted on stories they havent seen. feed people stories based on similar voting patterns, to test if you predicted their votes correctly. maybe a synthesis of two random vote…

> the new llm craze should make moderation and metamoderation even easier.

How can you have actually been there and at all believe this?

Re: Slashdot founder Rob Malda on why there won’t be another Hacker News (2013)

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Post by jszymborski »

isaacremuant wrote: post #50
sctb wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I would read that as editorial/curatorial power being decentralized.

The sad fact is that the fediverse has the worse of both worlds where, in the end, it still seems like following a block list of an admin who is accountable to no one (instead of a popular person with some specific track record) and the fragmentation means the discoverability and interaction is minimal. Until there's a way where one user can decide what instances to see, it will be a crap experience unless you agree…

Join a member-owned co-op instance :) If set-up correctly the admins/mods are legally bound to be responsible to the members of the co-op.

Judging by your comment though, I think we prefer very different levels of moderation, and I'd agree that culturally Masto trends towards heavier moderation.

Re: Slashdot founder Rob Malda on why there won’t be another Hacker News (2013)

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Post by dpeck »

cmdrtaco wrote: post #15
jacquesm wrote: post #11

He's still a user: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=cmdrtaco

Hi.

Im going to join the mini-appreciate session here and add that there’s still lines from Geeks in Space that give me a smile and chuckle when they pop into my mind well on 20 years later.

Cheers to you sir.

Re: Slashdot founder Rob Malda on why there won’t be another Hacker News (2013)

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Post by DANmode »

mixmax wrote: post #38
Angostura wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The moderation and meta-moderation system was a thing of elegant beauty.

I'm till flabbergasted that noone stole it, it worked so well.

Did it work well for retaining good discussion and a community?

...or for making money?

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