- Barky ( @Barky@lemmy.zip ) English73•11 months ago
I was part of the digg migration to Reddit
- interolivary ( @interolivary@beehaw.org ) English16•11 months ago
Yeah, same. I left a bit before the mass exodus, just like I did with Reddit -> Lemmy. I also joined IRC a bit before the Eternal September.
I feel like some sort of herald of Eternal September. So if your social media site is suddenly full of clueless morons, you can just blame me.
- Bady ( @bady@lemmy.ml ) 4•11 months ago
Sorry, I’ve been hearing about this for some time and I don’t know the story behind it. Can someone please explain the enshittification that happened with digg? How good was it before and how bad was it after?
- interolivary ( @interolivary@beehaw.org ) 8•11 months ago
This seems like a good overview of what happened https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/events/digg-v4
- NotSteve_ ( @NotSteve_@lemmy.ca ) 11•11 months ago
I knew about the migration but this line on that article is super ironic
Reddit founder Alexis Ohanian posted on his personal blog an open letter to Rose[17], where he speculated that “this new version of digg reeks of VC meddling”, and that it is "cobbling together features from more popular sites and departing from the core of digg
- interolivary ( @interolivary@beehaw.org ) 3•11 months ago
Yeah the parallels are pretty hilarious
- Bady ( @bady@lemmy.ml ) 4•11 months ago
Thanks. Power to the people.
- interolivary ( @interolivary@beehaw.org ) 2•11 months ago
✊
- Zoidsberg ( @Zoidsberg@lemmy.ca ) 4•11 months ago
Rose invested $6,000 into the site that was meant to be a down payment on a house
Was this in the 1920s?
- philluminati ( @philluminati@lemmy.ml ) 5•11 months ago
It was amazing but I was young and it was wonderful to discover. I think people have fond memories for it really.
It’s very similar to Lemmy, if not just the same thing done a different way. I think there were only upvotes (I can Digg it).
For young people discovering Lemmy, as it is now, and discovering Linux subreddits etc, they probably get the same enjoyment/attachment etc.
The redesign of Digg downplayed it’s communities and put mainstream media first (as if Kbins magazine tool was restricted to famous newspapers) and thus it immediately felt like the community had been fractured. Reddit was growing with peoples own blogs and it felt way more community oriented. This is where I think and hope Lemmy will also find its own community.
- Bady ( @bady@lemmy.ml ) 1•11 months ago
Thanks for sharing.
- CalcProgrammer1 ( @CalcProgrammer1@lemmy.ml ) 2•11 months ago
Same. Digg was the first site I frequented, then migrated to reddit with the v4 exodus.
- Tyfud ( @Tyfud@lemmy.one ) 2•11 months ago
Same. This all feels so similar, but different at the same time. In a good way tho.
- Mereo ( @Mereo@lemmy.ca ) 26•11 months ago
Slashdot -> Digg -> Reddit -> Lemmy. Back then, web servers didn’t have a lot of resources. So if a Digg post was popular, it could slow the site to a crawl. Then we all knew the site was being “Digged”.
- Elw ( @Elw@lemmy.sdf.org ) 6•11 months ago
And before that, sites got slash dotted
- Kale ( @kale@lemmy.zip ) English25•11 months ago
I switched from slashdot to Digg. Digg to Reddit when Digg started censoring the Blu-Ray decryption key (before v4), then was on Reddit until RIF shut down. I’m scheduled to get my 16 year badge this year I think. I haven’t posted or commented since RIF shut down though.
I’m debating whether to sell my account or delete it. $75 could buy a lot of printer filament.
- ijeff ( @ijeff@lemdro.id ) 5•11 months ago
16-year Reddit account here. It was the HD-DVD encryption key leak in early 2007.
- Jeff ( @Jeff@lemm.ee ) English3•11 months ago
Also a 16 yr acct. also a Jeff lol.
- ijeff ( @ijeff@lemdro.id ) 2•11 months ago
Hah! 🙌 what was your Reddit handle?
- Jeff ( @Jeff@lemm.ee ) English3•11 months ago
Lol I found you and sent a howdy your way hahahah both of us May 2nd 2007 too. Same Bishop handle I had on Digg too, and … really everything back to my Fidonet handle. I’m old.
- ijeff ( @ijeff@lemdro.id ) 2•11 months ago
Weird!!
- BarqsHasBite ( @someguy3@lemmy.ca ) English1•11 months ago
When did you leave slashdot to Digg?
- onTerryO ( @onTerryO@lemmy.ca ) English20•11 months ago
Yes, and also watched the Diggnation netcast.
- darkfiremp3 ( @darkfiremp3@beehaw.org ) English3•11 months ago
The glory days!
- ElBarto777 ( @ElBarto777@reddthat.com ) 19•11 months ago
Its* prime.
- Dandroid ( @dandroid@dandroid.app ) 12•11 months ago
Well, I know this guy was on reddit.
- Erk ( @Erk@cdda.social ) English5•11 months ago
At least we can edit post titles here
grammar nazi
- Crabhands ( @Crabhands@lemmy.ml ) 18•11 months ago
Me! I was a huge fan of Kevin Rose due to TechTV and jumped on board as soon as he released it.
There will never be someone as cool as Kate awkwardly dancing and saying “it’s menus a-poppin today on windows tips”
Leo Laporte was the bomb.
- Jay K ( @jayknight@lemmy.ml ) 2•11 months ago
I listen the “Classical Sprouts” podcast with my kids, hosted by Kate Botello. I think they get tired of my saying “I knew of her when she was a dorky co-host of a tech support tv show!”
Oh shoot. I gotta check this out.
- thelastknowngod ( @thelastknowngod@lemm.ee ) 2•11 months ago
Yeah I came in from the TechTV days too.
Sara Lane had a download of the day about the Synergy network kvm thing. “It works for both windows and linux.”
That’s how I ended up installing Linux for the first time… I didn’t know anything about it other that I hated windows and that was something different. 20+ years later I basically haven’t been without a Linux box ever since.
- 5in1k ( @5in1k@lemm.ee ) 16•11 months ago
I went Stumble->Fark->Digg->Reddit->Lemmy. Fuck I’m getting old.
- BellaDonna ( @BellaDonna@mujico.org ) 11•11 months ago
I left shortly after the HD-DVD fiasco. When people talk about the Digg migration, this is what I think of. Looks like there was another mass migration years afterwards
- June ( @June@lemm.ee ) 4•11 months ago
What’s the story behind this? It’s new to me.
- Sendbeer ( @Sendbeer@lemm.ee ) 11•11 months ago
Going from memory, people started posting the HD-DVD decryption key and Digg started removing all references to it to comply with take down orders.
There was a fair amount of controversy around it.
- Freeman ( @freeman@lemmy.pub ) 10•11 months ago
I went from stumbleupon/fark, slashdot/google reader, digg, reddit, lemmy.
My account on reddit is pretty old. Like in the 17 years old area.
Digg i was on until the first exodus. (It wasnt just one migration, it happened in 2-3 waves). I actually like G4TechTV and diggnations show (amongst a few others like Hak5 etc)
- rodneylivesG ( @rodneylivesG@lemm.ee ) 3•11 months ago
Fark is still around. I did a video interview with Drew Curtis a few months back for Another Website, and he says it’s actually been gaining members!
- 6daemonbag ( @6daemonbag@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 3•11 months ago
Fark -> reddit -> Lemmy. Before that I checked in on ebaums every Friday lol. Before that I wrote down long af links to dbz pics on post it notes at the library, went home, saw my handwriting, threw them away.
I think my reddit account was 16 years old. You got me beat.
- Squirrel_Patrol ( @Squirrel_Patrol@lemm.ee ) 10•11 months ago
I skipped right past Digg and went from 4chan to Reddit
- r4tzt4r ( @r4tzt4r@lemmy.ml ) 3•11 months ago
How was it? “Reddit is like 4Chan but with a condom” or something like that they used to say.
- krdo ( @krdo@lmmy.net ) 9•11 months ago
Never used digg. I went directly from Slashdot to Reddit.
- ProtonBadger ( @ProtonBadger@lemmy.ca ) 3•11 months ago
Same, I heard about Digg but never went there. Usenet->Slashdot->Reddit.
I still have a low 4-digit Slashdot account I never use. I felt sad when it got sour. In the the beginning when people announced passion projects on Slashdot the comments were “That’s so cool, it’ll be interesting to see how it turns out. Not something I’ll be needing but I wish them the best of luck.”. In late stage Slashdot it would be “Why! What a waste of time. They should all focus on what I use”. Unfortunately that self centered type of negativity is everywhere these days.
- Duamerthrax ( @Duamerthrax@lemmy.ml ) 2•11 months ago
I went back when I quit reddit. Immediately found racist shit complaining about equality in schools and some concerning comments about vaccines.
Fell far from the site that basically dripped Demon Haunted World to me.
- LeFantome ( @LeFantome@programming.dev ) 9•11 months ago
I used Digg and it was great while it lasted.
I am not sure how many years I used Digg. In the rear-view mirror, it feels like a temporary gig between Slashdot and Reddit.
- 3valc ( @3valc@mujico.org ) 8•11 months ago
I used to lurk on digg a long time ago, when the itnernet was good :(
- iesou ( @iesou@lemm.ee ) 7•11 months ago
I found it through StumbleUpon, which until reading comments here I always thought was just a sweet browser plugin. Never knew it had a site beyond a landing page and download button. Stayed at Digg until a friend showed me Reddit after Digg started sucking.
- undeffeined ( @undeffeined@lemmy.ml ) 6•11 months ago
Learned about digg and started using it only for it to die a few months later. Discovered Reddit back in the 2010s while searching for Bodyweight fitness advice and stayed till the API fiasco.
Digging Lemmy now (☞゚ヮ゚)☞
- Ravenzfire ( @Ravenzfire@lemmy.ml ) 4•11 months ago
Hah, this almost my exact same experience. Got into Digg only to watch it die shortly after. Went and checked out Reddit but didn’t really like the look and feel of it at the time. It wasn’t until the 2010s that I was bored at work and looking for something to read and stumbled on a Reddit thread that caught my attention. I was on Reddit after that until the API killed my 3rd party app and made the switch to Lemmy.