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Slashdot -> Fark -> Digg -> Reddit -> Lemmy (beehaw.org)

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 2 years ago (2 children)

It's funny to read this article about the death of Digg again:

In reality, Digg changed their business model and pretended that they didn’t. That is something that is unacceptable with communities and won’t be forgotten. Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian hit the nail on the head in an open letter to (now former) Digg CEO – Kevin Rose:

“You chose to grow with venture capital and you’ve no doubt (I hope) taken some money off the table in your Series C round. I say this because this new version of digg reeks of VC meddling. It’s cobbling together features from more popular sites and departing from the core of digg, which was to “give the power back to the people.”

https://searchengineland.com/digg-v4-how-to-successfully-kill-a-community-50450>

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Sadly, this is the only logical conclusion of things that are run for profit. Here's hoping the federated model proves more resistant in the long run.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Doctorow has it right. Enshittification.

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

Doctorow’s great, first heard about him from the srsly wrong podcast

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

His episode with Adam Conover's Factually podcast is great. A fucking must watch/listen

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Funding, even in a not-for-profit sense, will always be an issue. Wikipedia struggles, but kinda makes it work. We're going to need something creative for the fediverse...

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

that doesn't really hold because Wikipedia does not struggle with funding in the sense you're thinking: https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/wikipedia-millions-bank-beg/

so, survival doesn't necessarily have to be at stake

[–] _haha_oh_wow_ 1 points 2 years ago

I donate to them fairly regularly, Wikipedia is fucking great!

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Oh sweet, sweet irony.

[–] imaqtpie 20 points 2 years ago (2 children)

At least Ohanian is married to Serena, and left reddit 10 years ago. Spez (aka Steve Huffman) is a fucking piece of shit that betrayed both of his co-founders

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

They removed Aaron from the list of founders at some point.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

Tbh, I totally forgot that Ohanian left Reddit like 10 years ago 🤦