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0 pointscolpabar2y ago0 comments

Just like twitter.

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TBH, thinking back i'm kinda shocked Digg managed to die over this stuff. Was it just a different audience back in those days? Has Reddit reached a different more apathetic audience? Or is Reddit just not upsetting people as much as Digg did?

Clearly the internet has continued to grow more mainstream which brings a larger, alternate audience. I'm just speaking to the idea of why Digg failed and why Reddit won't (in this pass at least).

"Too big to fail" perhaps?

satvikpendem2y ago

By the time Digg did their redesign, Reddit was already getting something like 250 million page views a month. Reddit was a clear alternative to move towards. Today, there is no clear and large alternative to Reddit, as Reddit was to Digg.

jdminhbg2y ago

Digg was much smaller than 2023 Reddit, and it had a competitor (Reddit) that was already leeching some of its userbase.

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