The irony of reddit becoming popular because Digg was doing all the manipulative bullshit reddit is doing now… Wait, no. Not irony. What’s the other thing? Predictable.
Digg screwed up by doing what reddit had done starting a few years back, while there was an easy and available alternative to go over to.
Now digg is the easy alternative to go over to, but it won’t work as well. At least not for long. The people who own digg are venture capitalist firms. It’s sole existence is to monetize the hell out of the platform.
Meanwhile, Lemmy treads water with a bit too few members because the learning curve is a bit steeper to get started.
I thought the email explanation would help, but I’ve learned that the vast majority of people had someone help them make an email once a long ass time ago and haven’t thought about it since. They maybe made a second one when they needed a serious job and were afraid everyone would judge SmokerToker69.
These are investors seeing competition arise from a known name and getting spooked/pricing in a drop in market share. It has nothing to do with actual visitors.
Would be kinda funny if Digg consumed reddit’s userbase after so many people having come from there in the early days.
I remember when “Remember Digg?” was a meme on early Reddit.
Remember “Remember Digg?” digs?
Remember Reddit?
The irony of reddit becoming popular because Digg was doing all the manipulative bullshit reddit is doing now… Wait, no. Not irony. What’s the other thing? Predictable.
Digg screwed up by doing what reddit had done starting a few years back, while there was an easy and available alternative to go over to.
Now digg is the easy alternative to go over to, but it won’t work as well. At least not for long. The people who own digg are venture capitalist firms. It’s sole existence is to monetize the hell out of the platform.
Meanwhile, Lemmy treads water with a bit too few members because the learning curve is a bit steeper to get started.
I thought the email explanation would help, but I’ve learned that the vast majority of people had someone help them make an email once a long ass time ago and haven’t thought about it since. They maybe made a second one when they needed a serious job and were afraid everyone would judge SmokerToker69.
And also if there was a Reddit exodus because the mods and admins are power-tripping shitwallets.
And kinda depressing considering where we are right now and where they could have gone to
These are investors seeing competition arise from a known name and getting spooked/pricing in a drop in market share. It has nothing to do with actual visitors.
I meamt it more as users going to digg rather than lemmy
I… Know. I said the stock ticker is not indicative of that actually happening though
Real funny, because Ohanian is partially behind the new Digg.
Well he’s not behind the current Reddit, I think that has something to do with it.