Comment on Is lemmy now what reddit used to be 10+ years ago?

CorrodedCranium@leminal.space ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• phoneymouse@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Lemmy has a much smaller user basis

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• stoicmaverick@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I forgot about Digg. Whatever happened to it?

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  • Anticorp@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They forced a UI change that everyone hated, so everyone fled to reddit, thus crowning Steve Huffman, a dirty little piss boy.

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  • Zorque@kbin.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They had a site redesign to garner more monetization.

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    • Sizzler@slrpnk.net ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      They also had power users who dominated post and drove the control of conversation. (MrBabyMan?)

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    • Wrench@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The redesign elevated paid advertisers to the front page, masquerading as real articles.

      Suddenly 1/4th of the top content was fluff articles not very subtly advertising shit

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