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What Can Replace Kuro5hin?

Journal by MichaelDavidCrawford

Rusty Foster, the site's owner, said the site went down when its entire data center was decommissioned. While he promised to post a read-only archive, it's been a long time. We speculate that he did not have offsite backups.

Kuro5hin provided an outlet for our cynicism; for example I myself am responsible for the meme of "Ignorant Mother Fucker" - "Mother" and "Fucker" being two separate words, as I feel it sounds more obscene that way.

It also published much-longer essays and stories than one sees anywhere else. My own Living with Schizoaffective Disorder, first published there in 2003, is fifty pages in hardcopy form.

The problem I've got is that I'm bored out of my mind. I really like Soylent News, but it would be inappropriate for me to urge my fellow Soylentils to, for example, "Die In A Fire".

I need something more interactive than just reading what others have written. I like to write, I need a venue for my writing. I have my own website but it's not set up for discussion. "K5" provided that.

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  • (Score: 1) by charon on Sunday January 29 2017, @05:56PM

    by charon (5660) on Sunday January 29 2017, @05:56PM (#460319) Journal
    Isn't, "die in a fire," the way they say, "nice to see you, how's it going?," over at 4chan?

  • (Score: 2) by takyon on Wednesday February 01 2017, @04:28AM

    by takyon (881) <{takyon} {at} {soylentnews.org}> on Wednesday February 01 2017, @04:28AM (#461554) Journal

    I really like Soylent News, but it would be inappropriate for me to urge my fellow Soylentils to, for example, "Die In A Fire".

    Inappropriate, yet amusing.

    You are writing a journal about replacing what I believe was Kuro5hin's last remaining feature: journals. If you don't want to use SN as the replacement, I'm sure there are other sites that could be used like LiveJournal [wikipedia.org]. Unless you are specifically looking for solid non-censorship but still in a centralized service and with a social network of miscreants. Voat or something may be less heinous than 4chan but comparable to Kuro5hin.

    I don't think you are starving for options. This is the Internet after all.

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