• interolivary@beehaw.org
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      1 year ago

      Yeah, same. I left a bit before the mass exodus, just like I did with Reddit -> Lemmy. I also joined IRC a bit before the Eternal September.

      I feel like some sort of herald of Eternal September. So if your social media site is suddenly full of clueless morons, you can just blame me.

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      1 year ago

      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.