Timex's Journal: Fallout

Pretty interesting, that Reddit has been undergoing some grief over their policy changes. Many of their readership have jumped ship (to one extent or another) to voat.co, a site that has recently incorporated as an American entity in order to improve their chances of success. Factors in play (according to their announcement) include the ability to host in the US, ability to get financial support from the readers, and freedoms guaranteed under the US Constitution.

Reddit looks tired and old. Voat appears refreshing (mostly), though some of the attitude that drove Reddit is now driving Voat. By this, I mean the Hive Mind is active there, already able to "downvoat" points of view that they don't like.

I'm really hoping Slashdot improves again. The tales I've heard of Dice wanting to sell Slashdot might be a Good Thingâ, if it means that the buyer is willing to go back to Grass Roots.

the obvious

[Bill Dog]

One more way to improve their chances of success: Re-register the domain name as voat.se.

I've never been on Reddit; what's been so bad there?

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[smittyoneeach]

I think Reddit had some Social Justice Warrior CEO who got a little fascist and triggered a community meltdown, and then she tried to paint herself the victim.

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[Timex]

From what I've been seeing, it sounds like there are Suits running the show that wanted to make Pao (the woman who was CEO until recently) out to be the scapegoat. Trick is, one of the founding people (i think he was actually the first CEO?) is back and it's only gotten worse. Censorship abound, claims of "freedom of speech" abound, as long as you don't talk about certain subjects. All in all, it almost sounds like Political Correctness or even (dare I say it? Sure!) the current administration...

People

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[smittyoneeach]

As with #GamerGate, I'm aware that there is This Thing going on, but have not managed to penetrate the surrounding mist.

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[Timex]

That's probably just as well...

Grass roots

[nmb3000]

I've wondered if it would be possible to put together some kind of non-profit for Slashdot which runs it but has no intent of making money from it. Just enough for server costs and as little administration as possible. Regardless of the server costs, I suspect the biggest hurdle would be buying the site from Dice. I'm sure they hope to recoup a large number of dollars from the sale, so it's not likely they'd just donate it back to the community.

It could be an interesting experiment in direct community fu

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[Timex]

It's not a problem to get the source for Slashdot (well, maybe an antiquated version of it anyway), so setting something up like Slashdot wouldn't be overly difficult. I don't imagine that Dice will just let the name go for cheap, and there's the rub.