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> I remember when Digg crashed and burned because they got caught censoring speech. Everyone moved over to Reddit because it was all about free speech. I think
by diggan 2y ago
> I remember when Digg crashed and burned because they got caught censoring speech. Everyone moved over to Reddit because it was all about free speech.
I think you misremember what happened. I was quite young (internet-time-spent wise) when it went down, but I seem to remember the mass-migration to reddit happened when digg re-designed their website (to version 4) and it ended up crashing a lot, tons of bugs and removed features people were actively using.
- incomingpain 2y agoI legitimately still have my HD-DVD writers(HP dvd630) in my tower right now. It hasnt been plugged in for years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AACS_encryption_key_controversy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AACS_encryption_key_controvers... But this censorship simply provoked people to analyze the censorship and it was way beyond. They were censoring all kinds of things silently. Shadow banning wasnt quite understood yet.
- diggan 2y agoWent to Wikipedia to confirm, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_revolt#Digg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_revolt#Digg : > In 2007 in the AACS encryption key controversy > When Digg redesigned their website in 2010 the community revolted and used the platform to advertise a user migration to competitor Reddit So while both seems to be classified as "user revolt", the redesign seems to be acknowledged as causing the migration to reddit. Of course, not 100% sure how accurate that is, but seems to match my own memory at least.