You don’t terraform a thriving ecology.

Vice’s Motherboard just launched its own short sf stories subsite and went a bit overboard in its enthusiasm:

There are ​tons of ​great ​publishers of science fiction online—but still, it’s strange that there isn’t more fiction commingling with the newsy posts and personality quizzes and status updates tumbling down our feeds. We encourage the dissemination of information and storytelling in every conceivable way, be it listicles, data visualizations, video collages, tweetstorms, whatever. But when was the last time you saw a link to a short story shared on Facebook? The internet, it seems, doesn’t know what to do with the stuff.

A strange claim to make in a world with Tor.com, Strange Horizons, Apex, Lightspeed, Uncanny etc. undsoweiter. We’re actually living in a new golden age of short science fiction, after decades of decline. Once again, we get new writers breaking through on the strength of their short fiction, rather than as novelists, something that had been rare in the past two decades. So why pretend that you’re the first ones doing it?

Especially as this project seems aimed at an audience not familiar with existing sf venues, lying about them is well dodgy. Be enthusiastic, big up your project by any means, but don’t diss the competition.