nixCraft,
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Remember Digg? It once made a big mistake. Everyone left Digg and joined Reddit. Someday, history will repeat itself. That day, Reddit stock will crash post-IPO. Their entire businesses are based on users, and they have been hostile to users for some time.

nazokiyoubinbou,
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@nixCraft I don't know. It's weird. People are developing a bit of a stuck mindset on a lot of things. I thought everyone would mass exodus Facebook when it became known it was stealing info and manipulating people, yet it still controls the minds of older people. I thought everyone would mass exodus X when it was taken over by nazis, but so many are still there... I thought people would already have left Reddit, yet they're still there. People just get... stuck...

DominicDeligann,

@nixCraft thankfully we've got lemmy/kbin already, so we can happily watch reddit die.

Methylcobalamin,
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@nixCraft

Yep!

I had an account that was over 15 years old there. I moderated a number of forums. I posted there regularly.

Something stupid happened with one of the AEO scripts. My account got banned from the site for basically being a good user.

I tried to appeal several times, in several places. I got cryptic blow offs if I got responses at all.

Chancerubbage,
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@nixCraft what was the wrong turn Digg made?

I started viewing digg when TechTV was still on. I stopped visiting any web pages but I still get an email newsletter from them.

Reddit grew by being the last man standing as Usenet was killed as Google groups and other web discussion forums tumbled.

Roundcat,
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@nixCraft You say that, but I’ve seen so many people bounce back to #reddit and #twitter after they got bored with the alternatives, or forgot why they were mad at those platforms.

Doesn’t help that fed’s answer to Reddit #lemmy ended up being taken over by chuds.

Methylcobalamin,
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@Roundcat @nixCraft

Taken over by chuds, but started by a European political extremist and homophobe.

Roundcat,
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@Methylcobalamin @Roundcat @nixCraft A pro Z Marxist no less? How do you reconcile that without deluding yourself into thinking Russia is still the Soviet Union?

n1,
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@nixCraft what exactly digg did?

nixCraft,
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@n1 Reddit was Digg clone. That is the shortest answer.

SuperDicq,

@nixCraft I remember Digg but I'm pretty sure that 99% of Reddit's current userbase does not remember Digg.

SuperDicq,

@nixCraft I base my made up statistic entirely on the fact that most people on Reddit are not old enough to remember Digg.

ThePlanetRepairman,

@nixCraft

I'm still angry about that. Diggers poisoned Reddit. that's why I left.Reddit never recovered. It was never the same. Without me, that is.

Exaltia,

@nixCraft I don't remember digg, no. but i guess it was a reddit like and both take the same path now?

nixCraft,
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@Exaltia Yes, I think Digg was the first one to introduce and be successful in upvoting/downvoting stories. Before that, Slashdot existed, but they only allowed upvoting/downvoting comments. So Digg was nice, but like Reddit, it was controlled by a tiny group of Mods and Site admins. Mods got caught multiple times accepting bribes to push stories to the front page, plus SEO junkyard and stuff like that.

alda,
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@nixCraft IPOs are for selling out before everything goes to shit. They know what they're doing.

alda,
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@nixCraft the idea of getting participants with a certain karma or mod points is also just a way to initiate a pump and dump scheme.

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