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[-] JDPoZ@lemmy.world 33 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

*pre-2010 Digg

Digg after that was no longer competition. It was an ad-riddled trash-fire which drove a massive number of its users away to places like reddit... including myself... who just kinda did something similar with reddit.

[-] Radio_717@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

I went to Reddit from Digg during the great migration and I didn't look back. The Ads and format change were a huge misstep on their part. I honestly would have left Reddit when they went to New Reddit if we would have had Lemmy back then.

[-] marcos@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

when they went to New Reddit

I never went to New Reddit...

I would have left even if Lemmy didn't exist.

[-] Weirdfish@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I jumped ship without a plan. After a couple days I remembered I had heard about Lemmy in one of the "What are you going to do on July 1st" posts.

Am so happy with the results that I honestly no longer care what happens to reddit, I prefer this.

Smaller? Sure, but it'll grow. Even if it tops out at current user base I wouldn't see that as a bad thing.

[-] Radio_717@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I know it never left for PC and I used it over there but I was mostly a mobile user and killing Apollo destroyed my desire for reddit.

I was also not a fan of some of the changes that affected everything like removing NSFW from r/all.

[-] Sir_Kevin@discuss.online 4 points 1 year ago

Same. In fact I tried to find alternatives but there just wasn't one at the time.

[-] Paradox 3 points 1 year ago
[-] sarcasticsunrise@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

For now, yes. As clueless and inept as Spez has been about this whole thing, it's only a matter of time until old.reddit gets nuked.

[-] Paradox 2 points 1 year ago

They already tried nuking i.reddit a few months ago.

There's a workaround, you can append .i to the end of a URL and it works, but still, shame to see the lightest weight reddit interface disappear

[-] Radio_717@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Yes but evenso site wide changes still affected old reddit. NSFW subs were still removed from r/all and the sponsored content was still there too. Not to mention all the bots and spam. I was also primarily a mobile user so killing Apollo was the end for me.

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