SoylentNews

What a beautiful thing our little cadre of nerd rebels created here together.

The wider world is pretty much screwed by human short-termism and greed but we bucked that trend here by saying "Fuck No" to the relentless pace of corporate-driven change for the worse.

In a rare moment of optimism I previously wrote about creating your own micro-utopia. Well I believe we did it here.

I want to thank everyone who's a part of this site for your participation here, hell, for your love of this community.

I sincerely believe what we made here is a uniquely great concept that needs to live on.

I feel sure we'll make another one (maybe even still soylentnews.org) -- at the worst I'll probably just make a subreddit myself if no-one else makes this work -- and I can't stand reddit!

So preserving a cybernetic home for us arguably isn't our biggest concern -- it's a big amount of work but there's something more important -- we're a small community and we need to stick together through this and not fragment or give up.

If at all possible, our new site should keep an old skool, lightweight interface; it needs to be be a primarily textual forum with user submitted stories and yeah I think it should have user moderation if possible. We're mostly curmudgeonly greybeards -- best not to scare those away.

More importantly though, I really think we should only try one (or at most two) new sites at a time. If there's a backlash to what we try, if we keep it small and simple we can just change it or try something else (ideally under the same domain of course). If there are too many new sites this little community will fragment and eventually evaporate.

In this increasingly brutal, isolating world, don't underestimate the value of the connections and kinship we have here. I believe as the years go on this will become more and more imortant to us, vital even. Now let's get on with making it work! :D

P.S. If anyone finds this weirdo worthy enough of keeping in touch with, write to me. acid, immediately followed by an underscore, soycow, and that address resides at proton.me.