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1. nixCraft 🐧 (nixcraft@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 11-Mar-2024 21:19:27 JST nixCraft 🐧

   Remember Digg? It once made a big mistake. Everyone left Digg and joined Reddit. Someday, history will repeat itself. That day, Reddit stock will crash post-IPO. Their entire businesses are based on users, and they have been hostile to users for some time.

   • The Planet Repairman (theplanetrepairman@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 11-Mar-2024 21:59:22 JST The Planet Repairman

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     @nixCraft

     I'm still angry about that. Diggers poisoned Reddit. that's why I left.Reddit never recovered. It was never the same. Without me, that is.

   • nixCraft 🐧 (nixcraft@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 11-Mar-2024 23:30:24 JST nixCraft 🐧

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     @n1 Reddit was Digg clone. That is the shortest answer.

   • n1 (n1@fosstodon.org)'s status on Monday, 11-Mar-2024 23:30:25 JST n1

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     @nixCraft what exactly digg did?

   • Exaltia (exaltia@kets.me)'s status on Monday, 11-Mar-2024 23:31:28 JST Exaltia

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     @nixCraft@mastodon.social I don't remember digg, no. but i guess it was a reddit like and both take the same path now?

   • Roundcat (roundcat@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 11-Mar-2024 23:38:43 JST Roundcat

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     @nixCraft You say that, but I’ve seen so many people bounce back to #reddit and #twitter after they got bored with the alternatives, or forgot why they were mad at those platforms.

     Doesn’t help that fed’s answer to Reddit #lemmy ended up being taken over by chuds.

   • Chancerubbage (chancerubbage@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Mar-2024 00:22:09 JST Chancerubbage

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     @nixCraft what was the wrong turn Digg made?

     I started viewing digg when TechTV was still on. I stopped visiting any web pages but I still get an email newsletter from them.

     Reddit grew by being the last man standing as Usenet was killed as Google groups and other web discussion forums tumbled.

   • 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇮🇱 🐧 🥦 (methylcobalamin@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Mar-2024 00:29:55 JST 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇮🇱 🐧 🥦

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     @nixCraft

     Yep!

     I had an account that was over 15 years old there. I moderated a number of forums. I posted there regularly.

     Something stupid happened with one of the AEO scripts. My account got banned from the site for basically being a good user.

     I tried to appeal several times, in several places. I got cryptic blow offs if I got responses at all.

   • Dom (dominicdeligann@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Mar-2024 07:08:50 JST Dom

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     @nixCraft thankfully we've got lemmy/kbin already, so we can happily watch reddit die.