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Digg failed because Reddit existed. There's no similar social media for Reddit refugees to go to.

dagurp 7y ago
Reddit had existed for a while before Digg saw a mass exodus. I used both at the same time until Digg pushed a big update that broke the site.
- dariusj18 7y ago
  Yeah, for a while, Digg and Reddit were very similar, so Digg thought, "Hey, let's differentiate ourselves from our competitors." They then proceeded to ruin themselves by trying to become something more like a news aggregator, when what users really wanted was what Reddit remained.
  - Loughla 7y ago
    And this was at the same time, or roughly the same time, that slashdot started making 'improvements'. I dumped both slashdot and digg to go to reddit. And now I'm starting to look for somewhere else to go.
    - thedaemon 7y ago
      You have succeeded, you are on HackerNews. Isn't this why we are all here? HackerNews is kind of like what Slashdot,Digg and Reddit were originally; that is "news for nerds".
      - Loughla 7y ago
        Yeah, but I still love dank memes, is the issue. I have just enough childish mess inside me that I want some deep fried memes or somethings like that. For example, one of my most frequented subreddits is r/Im15andthisisyeet. Absolutely no value for the HN crowd, and it would piss me off to no end if that sort of thing came here, but I still want it occasionally.
      - account42 7y ago
        Hacker News isn't really comaparable to the different niche subreddits that I am subscribed to. At the same time I am not interested at all in the business-related articles that are also part of this site. That's why I still use reddit: I can subscribe to the topics I like while filtering out others or only viewing them when I'm bored.
pmlnr 7y ago
NNTP, and I'm just half joking. It's always been around, might always will be around. The old reddit is essentially an nntp web frontend.
Kaiyou 7y ago
Well, there is voat, but not many people can endure the culture over there.
- ativzzz 7y ago
  Just went to voat, and it keeps redirecting me to the sign in page regardless of where I go, so looks like they've beaten reddit in terms of unfriendly accessibility.
  - Kaiyou 7y ago
    Yeah, it's intentional, since the site periodically gets Ddos'd.
thebruce87m 7y ago
Time to go back to the source? Something Awful?

Reddit had existed for a while before Digg saw a mass exodus. I used both at the same time until Digg pushed a big update that broke the site.

dariusj18 7y ago
Yeah, for a while, Digg and Reddit were very similar, so Digg thought, "Hey, let's differentiate ourselves from our competitors." They then proceeded to ruin themselves by trying to become something more like a news aggregator, when what users really wanted was what Reddit remained.
- Loughla 7y ago
  And this was at the same time, or roughly the same time, that slashdot started making 'improvements'. I dumped both slashdot and digg to go to reddit. And now I'm starting to look for somewhere else to go.
  - thedaemon 7y ago
    You have succeeded, you are on HackerNews. Isn't this why we are all here? HackerNews is kind of like what Slashdot,Digg and Reddit were originally; that is "news for nerds".
    - Loughla 7y ago
      Yeah, but I still love dank memes, is the issue. I have just enough childish mess inside me that I want some deep fried memes or somethings like that. For example, one of my most frequented subreddits is r/Im15andthisisyeet. Absolutely no value for the HN crowd, and it would piss me off to no end if that sort of thing came here, but I still want it occasionally.
    - account42 7y ago
      Hacker News isn't really comaparable to the different niche subreddits that I am subscribed to. At the same time I am not interested at all in the business-related articles that are also part of this site. That's why I still use reddit: I can subscribe to the topics I like while filtering out others or only viewing them when I'm bored.

pmlnr 7y ago

NNTP, and I'm just half joking. It's always been around, might always will be around. The old reddit is essentially an nntp web frontend.

Kaiyou 7y ago

Well, there is voat, but not many people can endure the culture over there.

ativzzz 7y ago
Just went to voat, and it keeps redirecting me to the sign in page regardless of where I go, so looks like they've beaten reddit in terms of unfriendly accessibility.
- Kaiyou 7y ago
  Yeah, it's intentional, since the site periodically gets Ddos'd.

thebruce87m 7y ago

Time to go back to the source? Something Awful?