Yeah it was a huge event, felt like a giant online protest, and from my perspective it was the beginning of the end for Digg, and signaled it's decline.
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What is Digg?
Digg was essentially a site for sharing and discussing various links across the internet. It used to be extremely popular before the rise of Reddit, but it declined heavily after a controversial redisign (the infamous Digg v4) with most of it's users fleeing to Reddit.
IIRC it turned into a SEO brigaded mess there when I switched.
I never used Digg at all. Before the Internet consisted almost exclusively of "social media", I was mainly on topic-specific web forums run on software like phpBB and SMF.
I miss those days, but I know it's not coming back.
I was a member for promoting my blogs
I was on Digg but never much more than a super casual lurker. Like maybe hitting it up at work a few times a month. I was still on USENET most of the time so there wasn't much of a need.
Omg I loved Digg so much. Watched diggnation every single week too, via my softmodded original Xbox with navi x. I was so mad when they sold out lol at the time I had a little tech blog and I was talking so much shit about the buyout that someone from the new team personally messaged me to call me out on my bullshit ๐ it took me forever to figure out reddit when I finally made the switch and I never really felt at home over there. Lemmy feels much better
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I wasn't. Before Reddit I was on IRC.
Never used it.
I was most active on Slashdot and Fark back then.
And then I migrated to Reddit.
I couldn't speak English at that time, I can't speak now, though. :)
Me fail English? Unpossible!
I was a user of StumbleUpon at one point. I don't think I ever had an account on Digg.
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!
Haven't a clue what Digg and the other one are. I've just found Sync.
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I was using Stumbleupon back in Digg's day
Almost never did, to be honest, but I'm sure I missed out on a lot of interesting stuff because of it.
I kinda dabbled in most of them, except 4chan. In no particular order: Various webrings, usenet, tumblr, stumbleupon, digg, kiro5hin, reddit, slashdot, twitter, lots of rss. More reading than posting.