Lemmy.world grew from around 51000 total users the moment 3rd party reddit apps started to shut down on June 30 to 71000 total users at the time of this post (July 1). That's a 40% growth in about 12 hours!

Welcome new reddit expats!

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[–] trouser_mouse@lemmy.world 46 points 1 year ago (3 children)

This is beautiful to see - I understand Reddit is a company that needs to make a profit, but the way they have treated their users and unpaid staff is shocking (but not unexpected). The fact it also heavily impacts users with additional accessibility requirements is terrible.

Will be fun in a way to watch Reddit try to claw back what has happened.

Give it 12 months it will likely be a wreck along with the current CEO who will probably be given the boot.

I'm old enough to have seen many services go through this: AOL, MSN, MySpace, Fark, Slashdot, Digg, Something Awful, etc. Reddit (and maybe Twitter) are just next in line to realise they are not too big to fail. Hopefully followed by Meta.

[–] Urik@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I know Slashdot's time has passed but didn't know there was drama involved.
Was there any Digg v4 like event that led to its fall?

[–] trouser_mouse@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's quite a way back now, so my memory is a bit fuzzy! I think there were redesigns and the site was sold to a company who mismanaged a few elements. I seem to remember a lot of noise on the site at the time, people complaining etc and then a large number moved away. I'm sure someone can fill in the details in a more reliable way haha.

I remember Digg used to be great too - between that and Stumble Upon you could find so much awesome stuff!

I suspect Reddit will die a much slower death, as it is just so big and widely used and the exodus of users doesn't feel as huge. It will be interesting to see how everything unfolds.

[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

If I recall correctly, Digg made some weirdo policy about officially recognized channels had priority over community posts?

Claiming they were trying to improve the quality and trustworthiness of their content.

They also made a redesign, so frontpage became 90% pictures, more suitable for people with zero attention span.

As I recall it, Digg "died" super fast after that. Of course technically Digg still exist, but it's nothing compared to when at its height, it became an internet buzzword much like "to Google it" still is to day.

[–] trouser_mouse@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Yes! Digg was pretty dramatic in how it fell from grace I think, whereas some other platforms have limped along slowly for quite a while after their prime, a bit like me.

[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Yes the problem was that they changed the concept entirely, and the change was to a concept that simply didn't work. The idea of "approved" content, was so lame everybody left.

Personally I had already left for reddit at that time, but the original idea with Digg was pretty cute though, they had a little icon of a spade, and you could digg up or down. Same as up/down vote on reddit.

Somehow reddit was just better, with it's way more text based design, maybe because it looked a bit like a colorcoding editor for programmers. for whatever reason reddit quickly had way better content than Digg, despite Digg was more famous and had a clear head start.

[–] starclaude@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

the thing is just like how people thought r/antiwork would be gone, turns out after some time it regained it users and activities, so I guess lets see if reddit users would be back, especially the amount of people browse from pc is not a small number either, I believe big subreddit will still alive or retained its user just like usual

[–] ijeff@lemdro.id 2 points 1 year ago

If it's anything like the Digg migration, it'll take time.

[–] spaxxor@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

I'm old enough to remember when this sort of thing was a regular thing, especially with bulletin boards popping up and burning down with regularity. Apart from crowd sourced troubleshooting and the like, reddit hasn't really done much for me.