Not only Digg, but I also watched Tech TV and was on forums I can’t even remember the names of. I’m still using IRC.
I remember visiting Reddit and StumbledUpon and thinking to myself how ugly these sites were compared to my beloved Digg
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
I never used Digg, but I discovered Reddit around the time just after the Digg exodus happened.
Slashdot -> Digg -> Reddit -> Lemmy. I used to spend lot of time on TheEnvironmentSite.org some time before Slashdot, but I cant recall whether anything else came in between those two.
Anyone remember Fark?
Me too, but I’d put Usenet in there before Slashdot.
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Yes, and also watched the Diggnation netcast.
I was part of the digg migration to Reddit
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.
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
Rose invested $6,000 into the site that was meant to be a down payment on a house
Was this in the 1920s?
Thanks. Power to the people.
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Same. This all feels so similar, but different at the same time. In a good way tho.
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!!
Where can you get $75 for your Reddit account?
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I skipped right past Digg and went from 4chan to Reddit
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.
I used it a little bit, not extensively. I watched Diggnation with Kevin and Alex though semi-regularly, as I used to watch TechTV prior to that.
I used to lurk on digg a long time ago, when the itnernet was good :(
I was a Slashdot -> Digg -> Reddit -> Lemmy (and actually quite a bit of imgur) wanderer.
I did do some local/regional dialup boards before that too.
I was reading /. when they opened up account registration and my friends got 4 digit ids, but I didn’t sign up right away and have a 5 digit one. At the time it was of great import. I tried it last year. Still works.
I moved to Reddit from Digg with the great pre v4 exodus.
I even went to Diggnation Live, here in London.
I’m too young for Digg.
