For what it's worth, reddit is only 6 months younger than diggs, and both were developed in tandem. Prior to the Diggv4 debacle, there was already a sense that

For what it's worth, reddit is only 6 months younger than diggs, and both were developed in tandem. Prior to the Diggv4 debacle, there was already a sense that reddit was "better" than digg in important areas. Digg had problems with power users, and reddit was able to pitch itself as being immune to them (lol). Comment sections on reddit in this period tended to have better content than digg, and subreddits were a meaningful way to curate your content, something digg lacked. A common feeling of the era was that digg looked better, but reddit had better content. Less, but better