It's a fair point, but I actually wish we had a hacker community like this without the business/startup side at all. It's just not that interesting to me.
As for abdicating leadership, I don't know that simply following in their footsteps is going to make better organizations either. That's just "if you can't beat em, join em" thinking... but that's a separate discussion, I suppose.
Well, I can just skip the topics I'm not interested in. It's just that there's a pretty clear bias here for startup-capitalist mentality (which is fine, just not really for me), and it's harder to find people discuss the things that challenge that status quo system (politics, socialism, tech coops, etc.).
I think the moderators here do a great job, but at the end of the day it's still a service of YCombinator, and that draws a certain crowd. I prefer to gently step away from the financial side of that Venn diagram, personally, but there are also many people here who come here specifically FOR that, which I have no problem with.
I just miss the old Slashdot, probably, with high-quality tech discussions but less of an emphasis on the business side of things and the startup hustle culture.
Hey mcint, I appreciate it, but I don't think I trust myself to be well-behaved enough for an invite-only community, lol. I can barely stay within the rules here :) Thanks, though!
As for abdicating leadership, I don't know that simply following in their footsteps is going to make better organizations either. That's just "if you can't beat em, join em" thinking... but that's a separate discussion, I suppose.