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Ever since the Reddit API revolt began, I've been hearing about its similarities with Digg's downfall. So I looked it up online, and it really has some crucial similarities. (productmint.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The similarities are amazing, especially considering Reddit was one of the succesors of Digg. They can now enable other successors by making stupid decissions and alienating core users.

I wonder if this speaks to the unsustainability of platforms like these, or the cycle can be broken by making good decissions.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A lot of digg submissions were "stolen" from reddit even before reddit got big. Thats how i found out about reddit. Content is king and reddit had better content than digg from the start. Fediverse cant compete with reddit in terms of content atm.

This whole "reddit will die just like digg" sounds like copium to me. I am boycotting reddit but we need to be realistic about the situation. I am not even sure the fediverse(or its members) can even handle reddit's traffic, on an architectural level. Reddit will eventually die but it wont be as fast as digg. And even digg lasted many years with decent popularity.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Tbf lots of popular posts on reddit is either repost or from tiktok.

[–] SickIcarus 4 points 1 year ago

Yup. Reddit used to be the place to go to be ahead of the news cycle, but it hasn’t been that for quite some time.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

They are now. Tiktok is the primary producer of content nowadays.