Bonehead

Yeah. It’s called “Life”.

No matter what you call them, they are still going to cut the corners of your mouth. And it’s still not going to stop you.

Slashdot is actually a fairly active community that was never aspiring to be the “front page of the internet”. As far as I can tell, it’s about as popular as it ever was. And Fark isn’t much different…slighlty less users than in the past, but they have some active content creators.

The comparison you’re looking for is Digg. That was the previous “front page of the internet” before they committed suicide and handed the title to Reddit. Now they are a news aggregate site where almost all content is created by bots. This is the path Reddit is travelling down. Completely curated, AI generated, with bots commenting to create the illusion of engagement. It’s almost there now. The amount of reposted content and copied comments has increased substantially over the last few years. And with the availability of LLMs now, it will only get worse.

Wait until the IPO, if it ever happens. The site will transform into a news aggregator ran by bots. No one will care about it anymore once Spez cashes out, or if he can’t then the entire thing will implode dramatically. Just like Digg.

So…you’re going to post torrents and seed all those movies…right?