The Return of Digg, a Star of Web 2.0
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Two decades after creating Digg, a community-focused social message board, Kevin Rose is reviving the site and teaming up with a founder of Reddit.
  • originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com
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    4 days ago

    star my asshole. it was the skipper to reddits golden age. like barbies younger sister it was never as popular and a complete clone to grab the kids who rejected reddit

    • juli@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      3 days ago

      reddit was just another pligg/elgg (open source link aggregator/social media cms at that time) clone trying to eat into the diggs market. and yes, reddit was open source too.

      But unlike the fragmented open source alternatives, reddit had a marketing budget and lured in most of the users.

    • wyrmroot@programming.devEnglish
      5·
      4 days ago

      That’s just factually untrue. It began as a much more popular site, but hemorrhaged users (who mainly went to Reddit) after an extremely unpopular site redesign.

      • Nanook@lemm.eeEnglish
        5·
        4 days ago

        Exactly. Reddit surge was because of the pre-death of Digg. Kinda what Reddit is experiencing itself now