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I'd say Digg became popular due to promoting it on television, Kevin mentioned Digg on TechTV and invited people to try it. He had a captive audience on TechTV
by dhughes 16y ago
I'd say Digg became popular due to promoting it on television, Kevin mentioned Digg on TechTV and invited people to try it.
He had a captive audience on TechTV (or what was left of it after G4 gutted it) which helped a lot to get the word out and to give it some geek credit.
Then there was a shift from Slashdot (my post never gets shown!) to Digg (my post never gets shown) to Reddit (too many people posting!) now ...Hacker News?
- clistctrl 16y agoI don't think there's going to be a shift from Reddit to Hacker news in the same way. I feel like there's a theoretical balance between social networks. Additionally I think reddits subreddit system helps a lot too. p.s sorry for the drunk post.
- dhughes 16y agoI expect drunk posts today of all days. Certainly Reddit is quite different but I can see a shift maybe among older users or maybe more of a dual membership.