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Post by phire »

hinkley wrote: post #87
lc9er wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I’m not sure that Reddit doing the same thing is a big a problem as random acts of admin overreach and the looming threat of old Reddit going away. The moment that happens, I’m done with the service. New Reddit is a prime example of enshittification.

I took it as, “the same sorts of mistakes Digg made” which I would agree with. They’re boiling the frog pretty successfully though.

Yeah, reddit spread the changes out over years, just Decades of slow incremental changes. Even the new UI started off as optional, and the old UI is still (mostly) supported after 7 years.

Digg always rolled out its changes in one big update, which replaced the old version of the site overnight. So not only did users get to see all the changes in one big slap to the fact, but they couldn't switch back to Digg v3 if they didn't like Digg v4.

In fact, Digg itself couldn't roll back the entire site to v3 even if they had wanted to, as the v4 rollout required a database migration, and there was no reverse migration path.

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Post by kogasa240p »

phire wrote: post #57
Wonnk13 wrote: post #15

I was a refugee of the Great Digg Migration to reddit some 14 or so years ago. old.reddit and adblockers as well as very aggressive curation of subreddits have kept it to an overall positive experience over the decade. I think overall I'm just less enthusiastic about the internet; everytime I come back from a week or two of backpacking without internet connection I realize how overstimulated with inane bullshit we al…

I was an early refugee from Digg, been on reddit for 17 years now. Aggressive curation of subreddits did help, but I fear the decent subreddits are slowly dying out. The modern iteration of site (It's more of an app these days) appears to attract the wrong type of users for the healthy conversations that I enjoy. I am surprised how long reddit lasted, but I get the feeling it might not hold on to me for much longer.

>I am surprised how long reddit lasted, but I get the feeling it might not hold on to me for much longer.

Agreed, the site feels like a ghost town these days whenever I lurk there.

Re: Digg.com is back

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Post by crmd »

Yhippa wrote: post #38
crmd wrote: post #31

Back in the day I was mostly on slashdot, Reddit, digg, and metafilter. Digg was the first site where I started seeing brainrot nonsense content on the front page every day, with orders of magnitude larger than usual upvotes of tech news, from the same small number of usernames (Mr BabyMan, I hate that I even remember your stupid username). For me, Digg was the first time experiencing product managers experimenting w…

You forgot Fark! Except that was unironic brainrot and everybody knew what it was. Unlike now, where critical thinking went out the window and everybody takes things at face value.

Fark was great. All hail Drew!

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Post by southwindcg »

jtbayly wrote: post #56
haburka wrote: post #5

I think that social media has been a massive experiment where we asked, what if we let capital interests subvert our desire for community to get us to watch ads? And we have learned that it’s just not a good idea. I think perhaps Digg was one of the better ones but I solemnly wish social media was mostly illegal, especially advertising based, for profit sites. I think hacker news manages to be ok since it doesn’t rel…

HN has advertising too. I don’t claim it’s the same, but let’s be accurate.

True, but how many sites allow users to down-vote or flag the advertisements? A lot of the blatant ad posts wind up flag-killed and only people who have "show dead" enabled ever see them.

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Post by throwawaylaptop »

113 wrote: post #115
throwawaylaptop wrote: post #106

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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Are you talking about medical transition? Why'd you have to use scary euphemisms to refer to something?

My wording sounds way more accurate and less euphemism like than "medical transition".

Re: Digg.com is back

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Post by kjkjadksj »

autoexec wrote: post #32

Digg failed because they weren't listening to what the users wanted. Reddit has been doing the same thing for a long time, and there's a large number of people looking for somewhere to migrate to. It'd be hilarious if New Digg becomes that, but I'm feeling pretty skeptical that New Digg is going to be any better. What little I've seen about New Digg talks about crypto, AI, and "Gems" you can earn which is far from a…

At this point I think I’m giving up on the migration. The critical window is over. Most of the curious people who made reddit what it was 15 years ago are probably too bogged down with life to make the next replacement good today. Younger people have been brought up on ad based social media and have no concept of what a healthy forum environment ought to be like and therefore lack the cultural context to be good contributors that we took for granted in the 2000s and early 2010s. Instead many want to be useful mouth pieces for a brand endorsement. It is just such a different internet today than just 10 years ago.

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Post by antisthenes »

scythe wrote: post #97
autoexec wrote: post #32

Digg failed because they weren't listening to what the users wanted. Reddit has been doing the same thing for a long time, and there's a large number of people looking for somewhere to migrate to. It'd be hilarious if New Digg becomes that, but I'm feeling pretty skeptical that New Digg is going to be any better. What little I've seen about New Digg talks about crypto, AI, and "Gems" you can earn which is far from a…

I think this is basically misguided. Digg failed because their commenter UX was clunky. It tried to split the baby between linear and tree comments and just ended up being a mess. Reddit had been slowly stealing traffic from Digg for years by the time of the "rebellion". In the end, Reddit became many times larger than Digg ever was. The biggest problem with displacing Reddit as such is that currently most of the use…

Fair assessment.

I think Reddit right now sits in some weird space between Discord/Nextdoor/Quora, with most content posted after ~2018-2019 being extremely low quality, outside of some niche subreddits.

But overall it is just a gateway to other platforms where the really interesting conversations are happening and content is being created.

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Post by alex1138 »

system2 wrote: post #81
autoexec wrote: post #32

Digg failed because they weren't listening to what the users wanted. Reddit has been doing the same thing for a long time, and there's a large number of people looking for somewhere to migrate to. It'd be hilarious if New Digg becomes that, but I'm feeling pretty skeptical that New Digg is going to be any better. What little I've seen about New Digg talks about crypto, AI, and "Gems" you can earn which is far from a…

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Okay, "LGBTQ loving" just makes you sound incredibly hateful

I agree with the general overall point, certain views get banned, they took down nonewnormal while allowing bots in r/coronavirus to flourish, and other examples I can think of

But you... just sound like you're not valid at all, when you lead off like that

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