star my asshole. it was the skipper to reddits golden age. like barbies younger sister it was never as popular and a complete clone to grab the kids who rejected reddit
That’s just factually untrue. It began as a much more popular site, but hemorrhaged users (who mainly went to Reddit) after an extremely unpopular site redesign.
reddit was just another pligg/elgg (open source link aggregator/social media cms at that time) clone trying to eat into the diggs market. and yes, reddit was open source too.
But unlike the fragmented open source alternatives, reddit had a marketing budget and lured in most of the users.
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AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space · 3 pts · 1y
First time as tragedy, second time as
cryptoAI scamoriginalucifer@moist.catsweat.com · -1 pts · 1y
star my asshole. it was the skipper to reddits golden age. like barbies younger sister it was never as popular and a complete clone to grab the kids who rejected reddit
wyrmroot@programming.dev · 5 pts · 1y
That’s just factually untrue. It began as a much more popular site, but hemorrhaged users (who mainly went to Reddit) after an extremely unpopular site redesign.
Nanook@lemm.ee · 5 pts · 1y
Exactly. Reddit surge was because of the pre-death of Digg. Kinda what Reddit is experiencing itself now
MuskyMelon@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
Since I started on Digg years ago, I'm interested to see what the Digg Reboot will be.
juli@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
reddit was just another pligg/elgg (open source link aggregator/social media cms at that time) clone trying to eat into the diggs market. and yes, reddit was open source too.
But unlike the fragmented open source alternatives, reddit had a marketing budget and lured in most of the users.