I've been reading daily since 1997, but I can't condone pandering to a professional victims and hatemonger and giving out a patreon link to fund more of this crap
Reddit was destroyed by SJWs in a matter of weeks, if Slashdot wants to follow the same route and promote safespaces after almost 20 years of being a respected destination, fine.
SoylentNews [soylentnews.org] is a Slashdot-knockoff which appeared during the protest against the "beta" interface. The site runs on a fork of slashcode and has a very similar moderation system. Predictably, the community consists largely of former and current Slashdotters and the overall culture is very similar.
I think that appearances can be deceiving with SoylentNews. I hate to admit it, but that site makes Slashdot look good, even in the face of awful submissions like this one! The community there is a small one, and in my experience many of the users there are social rejects. This causes many problems. The first is a lack of quality submissions. The ones they do get are often word-for-word copies of submissions here. The rest tend to be very poorly written, if not outright political propaganda from several ext
What's a good alternative to Slashdot? (Score:5, Insightful)
I've been reading daily since 1997, but I can't condone pandering to a professional victims and hatemonger and giving out a patreon link to fund more of this crap
Reddit was destroyed by SJWs in a matter of weeks, if Slashdot wants to follow the same route and promote safespaces after almost 20 years of being a respected destination, fine.
Any good suggestions?
Re: (Score:3, Informative)
SoylentNews [soylentnews.org] is a Slashdot-knockoff which appeared during the protest against the "beta" interface. The site runs on a fork of slashcode and has a very similar moderation system. Predictably, the community consists largely of former and current Slashdotters and the overall culture is very similar.
Re:What's a good alternative to Slashdot? (Score:1)
That looks very nice, thanks!
And it even has the "Read More" button instead of a retarded "share" appendage.
Re: (Score:1)
Hacker News https://news.ycombinator.com/ [ycombinator.com]
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I think that appearances can be deceiving with SoylentNews. I hate to admit it, but that site makes Slashdot look good, even in the face of awful submissions like this one! The community there is a small one, and in my experience many of the users there are social rejects. This causes many problems. The first is a lack of quality submissions. The ones they do get are often word-for-word copies of submissions here. The rest tend to be very poorly written, if not outright political propaganda from several ext