Near the end of the 20th century, when slashdot was personally run by Rob Malda and a very small crew of friends, I used to spend a tremendous amount of time on the site. You could engage in free-for-all discussions with Daniel Robbins, Alan Cox, Donald Becker, Andrew Tridgell, Dan Bernstein or Keith Packard, and occasionally somebody like Steve Wozniak or John Carmack would just drop in to the middle of your conversation. You could make a comment about some coding decision SUCS had made that compromised the reliability of routing information in the linux network stack, and not only would you get a lively response arguing for and against it, you might find the author himself engaging you – either defending his code, or asking how you thought it should be fixed, or both. There was a strong libertarian vibe, but the conversation was about technology.
Very little of the above applies to slashdot today. In fact the closest thing to what slashdot was may well be Rob’s personal G+ stream (the link probably only works if you’re in the Google thingiverse).
Today, slashdot looks like this or this astonishingly often. It’s like a hypernexus of Ayn Rand worshippers and concern trolls reacted to form a hard nodule of utra-truthiness, where any attempt at technical discussion inevitably warps into a political screed that demonizes one group or another – favorite targets being democrats, “greens”, muslims, and absolutely anything funded by tax dollars.
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