• curiosityLynx@kbin.social
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    What exactly was digg and what happened to it anyway? I used phpBB forums and IRC as a teen, then didn’t interact with social media in general for some years, then eventually found my way to Reddit (with a low-key stint on Facebook to stay in contact with relatives across the globe in-between). The only interaction I had with digg was seeing Firefox extensions for it during what I assume was its hayday.

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      Digg was literally Reddit before Reddit. They redesigned the website to make more profits and people migrated to Reddit. Eventually Digg was sold.

      History repeats itself

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      It was exactly like reddit. A link aggregator with comment threads. Then they fucked it.

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        I used to call it a reddit aggregator because everything that was on reddit showed up on Digg the next day. That’s why I eventually made the switch to reddit at the time. May as well get the same content a day earlier.

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        How did they fuck it? I mean, I’m sure they employed some kind of enshittification, but what were the main things they did and what was it that made them breach the trust thermocline?