Is this what happened to Digg? : reddit

this post was submitted on 17 Jun 2023

55 points (100.0% liked)

13435 readers

1 users here now

founded 5 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

Is this what happened to Digg? (self.reddit)

submitted 1 year ago by zorrothefox2001 to c/[email protected]

7 comments fedilink hide all child comments

I'm way too young to remember Digg. I signed up for Reddit in 2015, and I've heard talks here and there about the migration from Digg, but that's it.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sort of. Digg’s implosion was much more immediate, the changes directly impacted normal users so it was easier to mobilise people, and at the time Reddit was a bit more mature and easier to understand than Lemmy/etc is now.

My guess is we’ll see much more of a Digg-like exodus once Apollo stops working and the average user sees an impact.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

agreed. I'm still on reddit mostly for sports communities that I can't replace here.

When boost stops working, I'm not going to download the Reddit app. I'll keep using it on desktop, but it'll obviously be less, but if they kill old.reddit that'll be it for me.

I'm sure some people will just download the official app, but if there's going to be a large drop in pageviews I would expect it to happen when the apps stop working.