The Fall of Digg and what it means for Reddit

Join me, I Will, on a nostalgic journey as we dig deep into the evolution of social bookmarking giants, Digg and Reddit. We'll explore their rise and fall, their impact on our internet culture, and draw some interesting parallels. Are we witnessing Reddit digging its own grave as it did with Digg? Will the reddit blackout take the site with it?

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[CalvesFanatic]

This video is really well made. I’m surprised it has less than 200 views. Keep up the good work!

[mrsebsin]

Dunno if this kills them, but I’m pretty much done. Even if the blackout changes things because it impacts Reddits IPO, I’ve already grabbed three open source alternatives. I won’t say I’ll never look at Reddit again, but it will never be my daily driver again.

[Rakenclaw]

I don't use 3rd party apps either, but i have been flirting with the Fediverse/Mastodon for a few years now and only just found an alternative to Reddit i enjoy, which is kbin. My feeling is that with how dystopian social media corporations are becoming, it's a good time to jump ship. With so many people having to look for alternatives for reddit today, they might just find Reddit wasn't as necessary as they once thought.

[thingsiplay]

6:23 hands after arguing too much on Reddit, pretty accurate from my experience

[DJ_MARIANO]

Digg feels like a fever dream lol, it was huge and they killed it overnight

[KyleMahaney]

A huge part of the API change is the loss of many moderation tools and bots, which make commonly-brigaded communities (such as queer or progressive spaces or sports team subreddits) usable. The amount of moderation work to keep those communities from turning into an alt-right edgelord hellhole without those tools is unsustainable.

I fear the loss of forums, particularly for niche tech spaces or entertainment fandoms. A much better sense of community and moderation, but reddit has killed activity and I think it would be hard to compel people to return to that model.

[phqutub]

Reddit was ugly as hell but highly functional for the purpose. Reddit would never have succeeded if Digg didnt sell out. Digg became a basic news site with catchy headlines and zero substance. You were forced to use reddit. Quickly you understood why the platform was superior and became addicted. History is just repeating itself. I'm shocked it lasted this long and to be honest the last several years reddit has been slowly moving this direction regardless. Just now without any legs by not listening to the people who create and consume the site.

News stations completely run google now. Every search tries to direct you to some local Post paid site. They dumbed down the search engine, where you could previously type 3 loosely connected words and find what you were looking for. In last couple years several times I had to give up searching for something I easily found before. I started putting reddit at the end of my search I could usually find what I was looking for, some type of human reaction, which is now replaced by ai. Reddit was the last haven and its going to crumble. Maybe 4chan will make a return. haha

[Nogardtist]

im lucky to never spend a single cent on reddit cause the site is corrupted not to mention a group of people can target if you they lose arguments with you so reddit report function is very easily abusable cause its all automated
so reddit must fall for everyone sake