That explains why wired has devolved into pc bullshit articles. I cancelled my subscription after their biased coverage of the silk road investigation that totally whitewashed the criminal actions of the agents involved. That was the most interesting part of the story.

Reddits Dead That's what I said. It's what I hear when I listen to this.

I refuse to give that website a textual mention or a page view. I am boycotting reddit, and I'm going to boycott the propagandist sister-site OP linked as well. (no disrespect to OP, perhaps they didn't realize that Nast owns both sites).

I can't wait until someone gets an web-archive bot going around here, we need to stop funding the corporations that feed off our metaphorical lifeblood.

This change in Reddit's policies is IMO just a part of a general shift to make people feel good in order to turn a profit. Advertisers don't want to be associated with anything that is not totally family friendly and so bland that noone will take offense to it.

Stuff like cute kittens and sports will always stay on the major websites. But the stuff that drew people there, the creative chaos, the the weird new stuff, the retarded trolls and some weird autists with their new "horribly offensive" memes will have to go. The wild west days of the internet as a whole are over.

I think this is just a result of the fact, that slowly everyone is coming online. While ten, twenty years back it was relatively few, more creative people, now the hockey moms are coming in. And for these huge numbers of people that are ready to instantly whine and complain instead of just keeping scrolling if they see something that "offends" them big corporate is going to reshape the internet. It will come to mirror the bland and boring environment that many of us came here to avoid.

Nietzsche's words "one must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star" will mean nothing anymore for the big social sites. The only things that these shitholes will give birth to anymore are snuggie ads. Enjoy your new world, suckers...

open source decentralized solution needed

Any site that gets its value from its community and gets off the ground will have the same fate. The site will be idealistic until big money comes in and overrules it. Then it will do whatever it can to be more and more profitable.

However it's not the fate of the whole internet, just each site at different times. As one site falls into ruin the crowd will migrate to one or more competitor sites which are in its idealistic state.

P.S. Doesn't it seem a bit suspicious that the slanted article came from Wired, which has a shared owner with Reddit?