DIGGnation!
Watching diggnation now is such a trip. It kinda feels like an era of the internet that simultaneously never existed and continues to thrive.
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I skipped right past Digg and went from 4chan to Reddit
How was it? “Reddit is like 4Chan but with a condom” or something like that they used to say.
Never used it.
I was most active on Slashdot and Fark back then.
And then I migrated to Reddit.
I used to use my Blackberry to read Digg every morning in college while waiting for classes to start. It was great in its heyday, but maybe that’s just nostalgia or that I’d not experienced anything quite like it prior.
I was really active Digg user and later HackerNews when it was really about hacking and not startups bs.
Never used digg. I went directly from Slashdot to Reddit.
Same, I heard about Digg but never went there. Usenet->Slashdot->Reddit.
I still have a low 4-digit Slashdot account I never use. I felt sad when it got sour. In the the beginning when people announced passion projects on Slashdot the comments were “That’s so cool, it’ll be interesting to see how it turns out. Not something I’ll be needing but I wish them the best of luck.”. In late stage Slashdot it would be “Why! What a waste of time. They should all focus on what I use”. Unfortunately that self centered type of negativity is everywhere these days.
I went back when I quit reddit. Immediately found racist shit complaining about equality in schools and some concerning comments about vaccines.
Fell far from the site that basically dripped Demon Haunted World to me.
I went from stumbleupon/fark, slashdot/google reader, digg, reddit, lemmy.
My account on reddit is pretty old. Like in the 17 years old area.
Digg i was on until the first exodus. (It wasnt just one migration, it happened in 2-3 waves). I actually like G4TechTV and diggnations show (amongst a few others like Hak5 etc)
Fark -> reddit -> Lemmy. Before that I checked in on ebaums every Friday lol. Before that I wrote down long af links to dbz pics on post it notes at the library, went home, saw my handwriting, threw them away.
I think my reddit account was 16 years old. You got me beat.
Fark is still around. I did a video interview with Drew Curtis a few months back for Another Website, and he says it’s actually been gaining members!
I was a user of StumbleUpon at one point. I don’t think I ever had an account on Digg.
i used it a lot, and actually loved Leo Laporte… but the remake forced it down my throat to the point i was forced to leave.
I miss The Screen Savers and TechTV. Somehow podcasts and streams are not the same. I tried to follow Laporte on TWiT but I eventually gave up. TechTV is probably also how I learned about Digg because Rose worked there for a while.
I went Stumble->Fark->Digg->Reddit->Lemmy. Fuck I’m getting old.
Same route but I skipped fark
I used digg a fair amount before the v4 revamp
I used Plime before reddit, around 2008. Hard to even find info on it these days, not that it was anything special; same general setup as digg or reddit or lemmy.
I did, I was in high school at the time and I had just discovered Firefox. I remember it was a while before it was possible to have nested replies. Before Digg I think I just used StumbleUpon. Good times!
Not only Digg, but I also watched Tech TV and was on forums I can’t even remember the names of. I’m still using IRC.
TechTV is how I found slashdot, then digg to reddit and now here.
Comcast was to blame for the enshittification of TechTV.
