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slahdot.org

Slashdot is really more like HN's predecessor. Mostly tech news focused. It faded in popularity after Digg became a thing and allowed all sorts of topics.

It was around long after Digg became a thing. It's downfall was being bought by Dice media.

I remember it being a thing before Digg too. I visited it less after Digg got popular.

Oh yeah, Slashdot is from 1997. Digg was an infant in 2004.

Slashdot was rocking in the late 90s when Digg didn't even exist. I started reading it when it was published by Rob Malda as his personal blog on his own server in his own dorm room. Along with Usenet, webrings, blogs, the original BoingBoing and the Illiad strips at userfriendly.org (dead, search for archived pages on archive.org) it is among the places of yesterday's Internet that I miss the most.

You must have misread what I said; That it was around long before Digg is not mutually exclusive with that it was around long after Digg.

https://slashdot.org/

Perhaps you meant slashdot.org - this is a typo squatter

At first glance it seems extremely US centric.

It's much older than Reddit but used to be as popular early/mid 2000s. There are topics and the front page automatically tailors to you location (or at least I think that's why I keep seeing UK news). The community has a number of in-jokes that have been running decades, it also has FP comment spam, usually a racist or similar ASCII art comment. That was my takeaway from it...

Ah, that makes sense, thanks for letting me know. But in saying that, I'm in the Netherlands and 100% of the stories on my frontpage were about things happening in the US.

Big Tech is still US centric, so it's not surprising a tech focused site would have US focused stories.

Having said that a lot of the stuff isn't US centric, like recent stories being "Linux Foundation Announces Collaboration for 'Open Radio Access Network' Prototypes" or "Debian 12 'Bookworm' Released" or "OpenAI, DeepMind Will Open Up Models To UK Government"

That's a fair point. I guess I was coming to it from a "Reddit alternative," and on Reddit I've curated a much more locally relevant feed over the years. Big tech news I already keep up with via HN.

shh that's a personal favorite.

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