• Bady@lemmy.ml
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    Sorry, I’ve been hearing about this for some time and I don’t know the story behind it. Can someone please explain the enshittification that happened with digg? How good was it before and how bad was it after?

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      It was amazing but I was young and it was wonderful to discover. I think people have fond memories for it really.

      It’s very similar to Lemmy, if not just the same thing done a different way. I think there were only upvotes (I can Digg it).

      For young people discovering Lemmy, as it is now, and discovering Linux subreddits etc, they probably get the same enjoyment/attachment etc.

      The redesign of Digg downplayed it’s communities and put mainstream media first (as if Kbins magazine tool was restricted to famous newspapers) and thus it immediately felt like the community had been fractured. Reddit was growing with peoples own blogs and it felt way more community oriented. This is where I think and hope Lemmy will also find its own community.

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        I knew about the migration but this line on that article is super ironic

        Reddit founder Alexis Ohanian posted on his personal blog an open letter to Rose[17], where he speculated that “this new version of digg reeks of VC meddling”, and that it is "cobbling together features from more popular sites and departing from the core of digg

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        Rose invested $6,000 into the site that was meant to be a down payment on a house

        Was this in the 1920s?