The difference was Reddit had already built up a reasonably comparable audience when Digg imploded so the migration was easy. If you look at a similar graph of Reddit today and Lemmy/Kbin, you probably wouldn’t even see these tools register with the active user base of Reddit so high. I think “rhyme” of history is that another service will eventually win, and it might be ours, but it’s more akin to the fall of the British Empire than an overnight event.
Digg had bled users to reddit over the course of a few years before the big one. Many users had accounts on both for that period as well.
“This was on reddit yesterday” was a top comment on Digg often enough.
I really hope that Reddit is getting punished for being too greedy. But I’m afraid that it is too big too fail just like Twitter sadly. But I’m glad that I’ve found Lemmy.
Jury is still out on Twitter. It very well could fail.
It just didn’t happen the instant Musk entered the building. This type of thing usually happens on longer timeframes. Digg died unusually fast.
A friend of mine was talking about this on treads today. Kinda forgot about it.
A friend of mine was talking about this on treads today.
Is that like twitter for shoes?
No it’s Facebook Twitter lol
Is there a c/whoooosh yet?
Oh come on the app came out yesterday lol I figured some people genuinely didn’t know lmao
