Digg launches its new Reddit rival to the public | TechCrunch
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Digg, a reboot of an earlier social news site, is now relaunching as a Reddit competitor focused on communities.

Lots of venture capital money behind it. I wonder how quickly the enshitification will begin.

  • somethingDotExeEnglish
    22·
    3 months ago

    What, Digg was before Reddit? Thought Reddit was the OG forum of the global internet.

    • rose56@lemmy.zipEnglish
      8·
      3 months ago

      Before Reddit and everything was forum sites. I use many of them today.

    • JcbAzPxEnglish
      4·
      3 months ago

      Digg based the voting off of a simplified version of Slashdot’s. Except they let everyone vote. Reddit then took that concept and added user generated categories and user moderating.

    • dil@lemmy.zipEnglish
      2·
      3 months ago

      even their tagline the frontpage of the internet is digg’s and they took it back

    • rezifonEnglish
      2·
      3 months ago

      Before Digg was Kuro5hin and Slashdot