Fabio Manganiello on Nostr: There was a time when #HackerNoon was actually good. It used to be one of my ...
There was a time when #HackerNoon was actually good. It used to be one of my favourite (if not THE favourite) daily read to understand what was going on in the tech world. And I even learned a lot from smart folks who would write about distributed systems or advanced programming techniques.
I used to write a bunch of articles there too, and even won a few awards for three years in a row.
Then HackerNoon just decided to go all in on #Blockchain and #crypto crapware. Open their website today, and you'll have to scroll through quite a few articles on DeFi, NFTs, shitcoins, smart contracts, more Web 3.0 piper dreams, new supposed revelations of Satoshi Nakamoto's true identity, before finding something that is actually relevant.
I decided to stop publishing for them because it's humiliating for me to spend days (or even weeks) writing a long article on e.g. how to build your own self-hosted smart home bridge or media center, or some considerations on advanced ML techniques, only to see it buried under a pile of one-page articles with no technical insights written by fanatic crypto-bros seeking either for undeserved attention or a way to shine a spotlight on their favourite cryptocoin.
Now that Web 3.0 has largely become the crumbling house of cards that it was always destined to be (and that both I and other tech writers predicted it would be a long time ago), HackerNoon is trying to re-position itself by proposing a "Web 2.5" approach.
It's so sad to see a once great publication fall so low.
https://hackernoon.com/unveiling-the-web-25-documentary-navigating-the-future-of-the-internet
I used to write a bunch of articles there too, and even won a few awards for three years in a row.
Then HackerNoon just decided to go all in on #Blockchain and #crypto crapware. Open their website today, and you'll have to scroll through quite a few articles on DeFi, NFTs, shitcoins, smart contracts, more Web 3.0 piper dreams, new supposed revelations of Satoshi Nakamoto's true identity, before finding something that is actually relevant.
I decided to stop publishing for them because it's humiliating for me to spend days (or even weeks) writing a long article on e.g. how to build your own self-hosted smart home bridge or media center, or some considerations on advanced ML techniques, only to see it buried under a pile of one-page articles with no technical insights written by fanatic crypto-bros seeking either for undeserved attention or a way to shine a spotlight on their favourite cryptocoin.
Now that Web 3.0 has largely become the crumbling house of cards that it was always destined to be (and that both I and other tech writers predicted it would be a long time ago), HackerNoon is trying to re-position itself by proposing a "Web 2.5" approach.
It's so sad to see a once great publication fall so low.
https://hackernoon.com/unveiling-the-web-25-documentary-navigating-the-future-of-the-internet