Comment on When Reddit was first becoming popular, were it's communities and content basically just clones of other websites like Digg?

db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

The original reddit was closer to hackernews than the generic site it is now. Not only that but spez has admitted that the original traffic was artificial, by which I mean, the owners themselves were creating fake engagement through various means, such as scraping and cross-posting content from sites like digg via sockpuppets to appear that the site had way more traffic than it had.

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