I was part of the digg migration to Reddit
Same. This all feels so similar, but different at the same time. In a good way tho.
Sorry, I’ve been hearing about this for some time and I don’t know the story behind it. Can someone please explain the enshittification that happened with digg? How good was it before and how bad was it after?
It was amazing but I was young and it was wonderful to discover. I think people have fond memories for it really.
It’s very similar to Lemmy, if not just the same thing done a different way. I think there were only upvotes (I can Digg it).
For young people discovering Lemmy, as it is now, and discovering Linux subreddits etc, they probably get the same enjoyment/attachment etc.
The redesign of Digg downplayed it’s communities and put mainstream media first (as if Kbins magazine tool was restricted to famous newspapers) and thus it immediately felt like the community had been fractured. Reddit was growing with peoples own blogs and it felt way more community oriented. This is where I think and hope Lemmy will also find its own community.
Thanks for sharing.
This seems like a good overview of what happened https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/events/digg-v4
I knew about the migration but this line on that article is super ironic
Reddit founder Alexis Ohanian posted on his personal blog an open letter to Rose[17], where he speculated that “this new version of digg reeks of VC meddling”, and that it is "cobbling together features from more popular sites and departing from the core of digg
Yeah the parallels are pretty hilarious
Thanks. Power to the people.
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Rose invested $6,000 into the site that was meant to be a down payment on a house
Was this in the 1920s?
Same. Digg was the first site I frequented, then migrated to reddit with the v4 exodus.
Yeah, same. I left a bit before the mass exodus, just like I did with Reddit -> Lemmy. I also joined IRC a bit before the Eternal September.
I feel like some sort of herald of Eternal September. So if your social media site is suddenly full of clueless morons, you can just blame me.
I used Digg and it was great while it lasted.
I am not sure how many years I used Digg. In the rear-view mirror, it feels like a temporary gig between Slashdot and Reddit.
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Slashdot -> Digg -> Reddit -> Lemmy. Back then, web servers didn’t have a lot of resources. So if a Digg post was popular, it could slow the site to a crawl. Then we all knew the site was being “Digged”.
I went from stumbleupon/fark, slashdot/google reader, digg, reddit, lemmy.
My account on reddit is pretty old. Like in the 17 years old area.
Digg i was on until the first exodus. (It wasnt just one migration, it happened in 2-3 waves). I actually like G4TechTV and diggnations show (amongst a few others like Hak5 etc)
Fark is still around. I did a video interview with Drew Curtis a few months back for Another Website, and he says it’s actually been gaining members!
Fark -> reddit -> Lemmy. Before that I checked in on ebaums every Friday lol. Before that I wrote down long af links to dbz pics on post it notes at the library, went home, saw my handwriting, threw them away.
I think my reddit account was 16 years old. You got me beat.
I switched from slashdot to Digg. Digg to Reddit when Digg started censoring the Blu-Ray decryption key (before v4), then was on Reddit until RIF shut down. I’m scheduled to get my 16 year badge this year I think. I haven’t posted or commented since RIF shut down though.
I’m debating whether to sell my account or delete it. $75 could buy a lot of printer filament.
16-year Reddit account here. It was the HD-DVD encryption key leak in early 2007.
Also a 16 yr acct. also a Jeff lol.
Hah! 🙌 what was your Reddit handle?
Lol I found you and sent a howdy your way hahahah both of us May 2nd 2007 too. Same Bishop handle I had on Digg too, and … really everything back to my Fidonet handle. I’m old.
Weird!!
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I’d love to have diggnation back
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I used to lurk on digg a long time ago, when the itnernet was good :(
I remember visiting Reddit and StumbledUpon and thinking to myself how ugly these sites were compared to my beloved Digg
I found it through StumbleUpon, which until reading comments here I always thought was just a sweet browser plugin. Never knew it had a site beyond a landing page and download button. Stayed at Digg until a friend showed me Reddit after Digg started sucking.
What is Digg?
Digg was essentially a site for sharing and discussing various links across the internet. It used to be extremely popular before the rise of Reddit, but it declined heavily after a controversial redisign (the infamous Digg v4) with most of it’s users fleeing to Reddit.
IIRC it turned into a SEO brigaded mess there when I switched.
I went Stumble->Fark->Digg->Reddit->Lemmy. Fuck I’m getting old.
I left shortly after the HD-DVD fiasco. When people talk about the Digg migration, this is what I think of. Looks like there was another mass migration years afterwards
What’s the story behind this? It’s new to me.
Going from memory, people started posting the HD-DVD decryption key and Digg started removing all references to it to comply with take down orders.
There was a fair amount of controversy around it.
I was one of a group of power users alongside mrbabyman and a few others that probably collectively amounted to 90% of the frontpage of the site.
how did the power user payola compare to xi bucks?
It was trash I didn’t even get mentioned in an Old Spice ad.
mrbabyman is a name I haven’t thought of in a long time
Andrew Sorcini. They’re ok for such a massive
