Journal: Goodbye, slashdot, after more than a decade 1
I have decided to leave slashdot after more than a decade.
I lived through the web 2.0 overhaul (or underhaul), and all the brokenness because the new "designer" has no idea how to make pages that scales for different DPI sizes.
I've lived through the attempt of making this another video blog, with every other article pointing to a video instead of text.
And I've lived through it becoming a venue for "white papers", in reality slashvertisements.
And yet, slashdot was my home base.
Why? Because it was slashdot, not just another social media site.
I am now leaving, and the reason? Because every post now has a link to facebook, twitter and google. If I wanted my posts to appear in other fora, I would have gone to other fora. I posted on slashdot, for the slashdot audience. Not for your facebook friends.
I don't have a facebook account, twitter account or google account. At least not any active one. I don't want to be associated with either - if they want to turn this into social networking, I'm out.
Goodbye, old friend. It was nice to know you while you were news for nerds, stuff that matters, and standing up for yourself, not hanging onto the skirts of others.
