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  • hadrian@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    I see what you mean to an extent, and I also just moved over, but it’s worth remembering that Digg -> Reddit was the same afaik. Like Reddit had been around and established for a decent amount of time before the fall of Digg. (This is second-hand info because I wasn’t around at the time)

    • DarkwingDuck@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      I’ve been on reddit for a couple years before the flood from Digg. The quality of content and especially comments went down right then, and never recovered.

      Personally I skipped Digg entirely.

      • HQC@beehaw.org
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        1 year ago

        Depends entirely on the subreddit, in my experience. Places like AskHistorians didn’t even exist when the great Digg exodus occurred. My favorite sub was /r/cfb which also benefited greatly from the mainstream popularity.

        Not coincidental that both of these are relatively strongly moderated compared to many of the biggest/default subs.