Wasn’t reddit competing with Digg, or whatever else was popular at the time?
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acosmichippo@lemmy.world 1 day agoBut reddit also didn’t have that when I started using it.
reddit also didn’t have to compete with reddit.
spankmonkey@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Plum@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I came to reddit from fark, before the digg migration or exodus or whatnot. There was also stumbleupon, and the others are all lost to me.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
Some of us old folks remember when it had to compete with Digg.
A far more popular competitor that made some unpopular decisions and lost their user base to reddit.
gdog05@lemmy.world 1 day ago
No but it was competing with Digg and Slashdot until Digg screwed the pooch. It’s been a while, but reddit really owes its size and popularity to Digg 2.0 and the fiasco of bad decisions driven by investors.
acosmichippo@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I’m talking mostly about the vibrant niche communities the comment above mentioned. That all happened well after the Digg and slashdot stuff. Niche communities grew on reddit relatively unchallenged.
Sure, reddit could have a similar meltdown to Digg, but I don’t think it’s a forgone conclusion. Social media has inertia. The bigger a platform is is the harder it is to lose people, because the mass is the feature.