The great digg exodus
this post was submitted on 19 Nov 2023
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If I recall correctly I was mostly pissed with 4chan doing jack shit against the invasion of Stormfront clowns.
Back in 2006/2007 I was reading Slashdot for tech news and stuff. I started noticing that a lot of newer content was just linking to Reddit posts, so I figured I'd cut out the middleman and jumped ship to Reddit.
Someone asked a particular neach question about a field I work in and as usual the answers were missing the nuance of the answer the person was questioning.
Everyone step aside, Gigachad coming through.
Minecraft servers I played on coordinated via Reddit and Mumble. Now they've mostly moved to Discord, which, in my opinion, really hurt the lore and meta gaming because Discord's steam-of-consciousness format doesn't work well compared to a forum style message board where it's much easier to avoid shit-tier content and find good, relevant, high quality posts.
That was a gazillion years ago. Probably some fandom thing? Seems likely.
Same here unironically
Anime, memes video games, the usual
slashdot linked to reddit
then the shareholders spied it... and that was that..
how's fark these days? still got a not see problem?
I was trying to unlock a dragon-type safari in Pokémon Y and you can't just enter a random code for that - you need to find another player who has such a safari in their own game already, share codes with them, and then you both need to be online at the same time at least once. After lots of googling I found a person on reddit, but didn't have an account at the time so I created one just for that dumb safari.
I didn't even plan to keep the account in the first place, so I didn't care for a proper name - that's the reason I was named "justlookingfordragon" back then. I tried "just_looking_for_a_dragon_type_safari_THX" first but it exceeded the character limit.
After that, I didn't touch the account again for a few months but eventually started using it proper for giveawys of Pokémon breedjects, and then later Zelda-related stuff. Still never bothered to find a better name and it's become somewhat of a running gag for me to use that awkward username elsewhere (like for youtube and lemmy for example).
I was a fairly new user. It was mostly because it was a popular platform so sometime during the quarantine I just started exploring it.
A YouTuber I liked created a subreddit for his viewers to post content related to him, so I created a Reddit account to comment on those posts.
I was a Slashdot user.
People kept hyping Digg as a Slashdot replacement, but trying to submit posts was actually even more futile in practice than trying to submit articles to Slashdot editors. So much bigger hivemind too. Boring unfunny comment section.
When I first joined Reddit, it seemed like it was mostly populated by Slashdot refugees. Just people posting awesome shit. Great riveting discussions, even before anyone actually read the articles. That sort of stuff.
I was playing CSR2 (still am) and was searching for some info when I found the CSR2 community there.
What's CSR2? I keep thinking Counter-Strike, but I'm not sure.
Custom Street Racing 2. A car hoarding game with some drag racing thrown in. It's an old serie of games I found in 2016 when looking for a car game with classics (I cound CSR Classics). This version is the combination of CSR and CSR Classics, kinda. (not enough classics for my taste)
It was christmas eve, I was stuck with family and with only a phone, Reddit had some things to read, that was basically it.
In 2012 I became an imgurian. sometime in 2013 that must've led me to creating a reddit account though I have no recollection of doing that, I didn't even really know what reddit was until 2015, when, imagine my surprise when I clicked on Reddit and it auto-populated a username & pwd for me that I barely vaguely recall creating two years prior.
I had steadfastly refused to make an account for years even though I browsed daily, until someone said something stupid in one of the Occupy Wallstreet threads and I couldn't stop myself from needing to correct them.
I used get my memes from 9gag 10-15 years ago until someone recommended Reddit and gave it a go
Online game companies started heavily censoring their own forums. Migrated to Reddit to discuss games with honesty and without fear of retaliation.
Digg migration