> Regardless, I have never seen a successful website or service start from the premise of "we will be just like thing X, but without the bad thing". Reddit its

> Regardless, I have never seen a successful website or service start from the premise of "we will be just like thing X, but without the bad thing". Reddit itself received a massive influx of users from Digg after the unpopular Digg v4 change. For me and many others, it was just like Digg but without the bad thing. Admittedly that’s not how Reddit started - in fact, Reddit had been around for 5 years already at that point - but you could say the same thing about Mastodon, which was started in 2016(!), or Lemmy, which was started in 2019.