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I was there when everyone left Digg. They definitely have turned into another digg 4.0 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digg#Digg_v4 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki

I was there when everyone left Digg. They definitely have turned into another digg 4.0 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digg#Digg_v4 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digg#Digg_v4 * Waste of real estate with redesign * pushing users towards more social features * Increasing ad presence in feeds instead of just the sidebar * Taking no steps to stop the hategroups that flocked to it in 2015.

jabroni_salad 6y ago
the real big misgiving with Digg was letting web companies like mashable auto-submit all their articles. It was no longer a user-driven community. Say what you want about astroturfing and power-users but most of the content is user submissions still.
raxxorrax 6y ago
Since many people are declared a hategroup by now if they have opinions detrimental the mainstream zeitgeist of power mods, the ban wave is a major factor in content decline in my opinion. A lot of people I know moved to greener pastures. There is meme spamming too and those subs are mostly uninteresting but I think it is the smaller problem. I still go there for content of smaller subs, but not nearly as often as before. From Wikipedia: > Digg faced problems due to so-called "power users" who would manipulate the article recommendation features to only support one another's postings This circle jerking can also be seen on reddit. People have suggested that moderators should be restricted to a few subs, but that didn't happen. They actually removed diversity they so often proclaim to champion.
- shmageggy 6y ago
  > A lot of people I know moved to greener pastures. Name some? That's how I found HN and reddit after Digg.
- crawsome 6y ago
  "So many people are declared a hategroup now". Can you give any examples of recently designated hate groups that you disagree with the designation? Reddit has been a hot mess for 5 years. It's T_D's fault. Content is less of an issue when you don't subscribe to the lowest-common-denominator subs and you just go there for focused interests like hobbies. It's the only way Reddit is of any use anymore. Social discourse is dead there. The trolls ruined the site. Before the election, Reddit was not so popular, more tech, more news, less drama, though it existed. Fast forward to 2015. T_D is created, pepe the frog is the mascot, and Trump is now the 4chan troll candidate. (You remember GOD PEDE EMPEROR, right?) T_D was a disgusting cesspool of brigading, trolling, and platform abuse. It wasn't just the politics, those people fucked up the experience for everyone else. That fucking sub got every pass possible from the admins and the owners. To go back in history from where T_D came from, Trump wasn't even that popular early in 2015. T_D was made-popular, if-not-started by 4chan's /pol/ board. That board was one of the biggest hotbeds for your "Jewish question of the week" / racist memes, "OK guys, redpill me" trash designed to turn young, white, "disenfranchised" teens into internet warriors. Russian internet troll agencies like the IRA worked on these campaigns used to recruit and redpill. They recruited enough people using heavily-doctored SJW cringe videos and "Carlson Dunking" talking head videos on people to convince their followers that Reddit must transform into T_D-land, and the Reddit community (And the rational admins) hated what it became. Soon, racist subs like frenworld / clownworld showed up casually displaying nazi signs. These subs do damage, and these posts were all intentional. All these subs were flocked to by T_D members. After each of these hate subs shut down, they start infiltrating mod spots on popular subs, trolling entire subs until they are kicked out by Admins. Now, mass accounts have started flocking here, because, again, like Reddit, there's no barrier to making an account here, so why not troll and shitpost all over every thread with doctored counter-arguments like "So many people are declared a hategroup now".
ric2b 6y ago
> Alexis Ohanian, founder of rival site Reddit, said in an open letter to Rose: > … this new version of digg reeks of VC meddling. It's cobbling together features from more popular sites and departing from the core of digg Couldn't make this more ironic if I tried.
peroporque 6y ago
Your last point is just ridiculous. Reddit has taken not just steps against hate groups, but they basically banned any opinion that isn't "correct". Before 2016 I often found interesting people to have insightful and controversial discussions with. Now, it has become just another boring echo chamber.

jabroni_salad 6y ago

the real big misgiving with Digg was letting web companies like mashable auto-submit all their articles. It was no longer a user-driven community. Say what you want about astroturfing and power-users but most of the content is user submissions still.

raxxorrax 6y ago

Since many people are declared a hategroup by now if they have opinions detrimental the mainstream zeitgeist of power mods, the ban wave is a major factor in content decline in my opinion. A lot of people I know moved to greener pastures. There is meme spamming too and those subs are mostly uninteresting but I think it is the smaller problem. I still go there for content of smaller subs, but not nearly as often as before. From Wikipedia: > Digg faced problems due to so-called "power users" who would manipulate the article recommendation features to only support one another's postings This circle jerking can also be seen on reddit. People have suggested that moderators should be restricted to a few subs, but that didn't happen. They actually removed diversity they so often proclaim to champion.

shmageggy 6y ago
> A lot of people I know moved to greener pastures. Name some? That's how I found HN and reddit after Digg.
crawsome 6y ago
"So many people are declared a hategroup now". Can you give any examples of recently designated hate groups that you disagree with the designation? Reddit has been a hot mess for 5 years. It's T_D's fault. Content is less of an issue when you don't subscribe to the lowest-common-denominator subs and you just go there for focused interests like hobbies. It's the only way Reddit is of any use anymore. Social discourse is dead there. The trolls ruined the site. Before the election, Reddit was not so popular, more tech, more news, less drama, though it existed. Fast forward to 2015. T_D is created, pepe the frog is the mascot, and Trump is now the 4chan troll candidate. (You remember GOD PEDE EMPEROR, right?) T_D was a disgusting cesspool of brigading, trolling, and platform abuse. It wasn't just the politics, those people fucked up the experience for everyone else. That fucking sub got every pass possible from the admins and the owners. To go back in history from where T_D came from, Trump wasn't even that popular early in 2015. T_D was made-popular, if-not-started by 4chan's /pol/ board. That board was one of the biggest hotbeds for your "Jewish question of the week" / racist memes, "OK guys, redpill me" trash designed to turn young, white, "disenfranchised" teens into internet warriors. Russian internet troll agencies like the IRA worked on these campaigns used to recruit and redpill. They recruited enough people using heavily-doctored SJW cringe videos and "Carlson Dunking" talking head videos on people to convince their followers that Reddit must transform into T_D-land, and the Reddit community (And the rational admins) hated what it became. Soon, racist subs like frenworld / clownworld showed up casually displaying nazi signs. These subs do damage, and these posts were all intentional. All these subs were flocked to by T_D members. After each of these hate subs shut down, they start infiltrating mod spots on popular subs, trolling entire subs until they are kicked out by Admins. Now, mass accounts have started flocking here, because, again, like Reddit, there's no barrier to making an account here, so why not troll and shitpost all over every thread with doctored counter-arguments like "So many people are declared a hategroup now".

ric2b 6y ago

> Alexis Ohanian, founder of rival site Reddit, said in an open letter to Rose: > … this new version of digg reeks of VC meddling. It's cobbling together features from more popular sites and departing from the core of digg Couldn't make this more ironic if I tried.

peroporque 6y ago

Your last point is just ridiculous. Reddit has taken not just steps against hate groups, but they basically banned any opinion that isn't "correct". Before 2016 I often found interesting people to have insightful and controversial discussions with. Now, it has become just another boring echo chamber.