• Tyfud@lemmy.one
      3·
      11 months ago

      Same. This all feels so similar, but different at the same time. In a good way tho.

    • Bady@lemmy.ml
      2·
      11 months ago

      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?

      • philluminati@lemmy.ml
        51·
        11 months ago

        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.

        • NotSteve_@lemmy.ca
          1·
          11 months ago

          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

        • Zoidsberg@lemmy.ca
          1·
          11 months ago

          Rose invested $6,000 into the site that was meant to be a down payment on a house

          Was this in the 1920s?

  • LeFantome@programming.dev
    14·
    11 months ago

    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.

  • Mereo@lemmy.ca
    5·
    11 months ago

    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”.

  • Freeman@lemmy.pub
    4·
    11 months ago

    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)

    • rodneylives@lemm.ee
      1·
      11 months ago

      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!

    • 6daemonbag@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      1·
      11 months ago

      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.

  • Kale@lemmy.zipEnglish
    4·
    11 months ago

    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.

    • owiseedoubleyou@lemmy.mlOP
      4·
      11 months ago

      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.

  • iesou@lemm.ee
    3·
    11 months ago

    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.

  • nick@beehaw.org
    2·
    11 months ago

    Omg I loved Digg so much. Watched diggnation every single week too, via my softmodded original Xbox with navi x. I was so mad when they sold out lol at the time I had a little tech blog and I was talking so much shit about the buyout that someone from the new team personally messaged me to call me out on my bullshit 😂 it took me forever to figure out reddit when I finally made the switch and I never really felt at home over there. Lemmy feels much better

    EDIT: Also, this song will forever live in my heart https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XLLRsn_nr6s

  • Crabhands@lemmy.ml
    2·
    11 months ago

    Me! I was a huge fan of Kevin Rose due to TechTV and jumped on board as soon as he released it.

  • BellaDonna@mujico.org
    2·
    11 months ago

    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

      • Sendbeer@lemm.ee
        1·
        11 months ago

        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.

  • 5in1k@lemm.ee
    2·
    11 months ago

    I went Stumble->Fark->Digg->Reddit->Lemmy. Fuck I’m getting old.