The landed gentry are only in charge until the king comes to town and chops off a few heads. At least that seems to be the case at Reddit, where CEO Steve Huffman pretended his complaints about current moderators — who were protesting his decision to effectively cut off API access to tons of useful…

  • @eosha
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    251 year ago

    I remember the day that Slashdot sold out.

    • @WhiskyTangoFoxtrot
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      201 year ago

      What happened to Slashdot? There wasn’t really one particular event that made me stop using that site, I just sort of drifted away. Was there an “enshittification” moment there, too?

      • @eosha
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        31 year ago

        1999, Malda & Bates sold it to Andover.net. It didn’t become terrible, but there was a sense that it went corporate. It’s been sold and resold since then.

        • @WhiskyTangoFoxtrot
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          11 year ago

          I guess I mostly used it after the sale, then. I started in 1998 or 1999 (when the hype for The Phantom Menace was building up) and used it until the early 2010s.

    • @Orbitrix
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      41 year ago

      Now this is the real nerd cred here lol. Yea. Same. We’re old now. Has its benefits and disadvantages.

    • @shadmere
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      31 year ago

      I rarely go to slashdot anymore, but still do occasionally. What did they do?

      • @Orbitrix
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        They were independent then they weren’t. I don’t recall any deeply controversial scandal beyond that. But the content and vibe was never the same after they “sold out”. They are a shell of their former self… they used to be “the thing”. Now they’re just something some people know about.

        • @eosha
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          11 year ago

          Exactly. It started feeling corporate.

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          11 year ago

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