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How many of you were using Digg during its prime? (lemmy.ml)

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[–] [email protected] 99 points 2 years ago (10 children)

I was part of the digg migration to Reddit

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (3 children)

This seems like a good overview of what happened https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/events/digg-v4

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Yeah the parallels are pretty hilarious

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Thanks. Power to the people.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

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

Was this in the 1920s?

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