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Digg launches its new Reddit rival to the public (techcrunch.com)
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Lots of venture capital money behind it. I wonder how quickly the enshitification will begin.

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[–] Bullerfar@lemmy.world 0 points 16 hours ago (4 children)

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

[–] rezifon@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

Before Digg was Kuro5hin and Slashdot

[–] roserose56@lemmy.zip 8 points 15 hours ago

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

[–] JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours 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.zip 2 points 14 hours ago

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