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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 3 days ago (4 children)

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

[–] roserose56@lemmy.zip 8 points 2 days ago

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

[–] JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days 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.

[–] rezifon@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Before Digg was Kuro5hin and Slashdot

[–] Bullerfar@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

I AM learning something New every day! Thanks!

[–] dil@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 days ago

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