How many of you were using Digg during its prime?

owiseedoubleyou · edit-2 2Y

How many of you were using Digg during its prime?

@gonzo0815@sh.itjust.works · edit-2 2Y

For me it was aimlessly wandering around -> 9gag -> imgur -> reddit. Never heard about digg before the API discussion.

lorez · 2Y

I wasn’t. Before Reddit I was on IRC.

@onTerryO@lemmy.ca · 2Y

Yes, and also watched the Diggnation netcast.

@darkfiremp3@beehaw.org · 2Y

The glory days!

FartsWithAnAccent · 2Y

@GreyShack@lemmy.world · 2Y

Slashdot -> Digg -> Reddit -> Lemmy. I used to spend lot of time on TheEnvironmentSite.org some time before Slashdot, but I cant recall whether anything else came in between those two.

@Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2Y

I never found slashdot, and I wish I had. I’m a LUE to Gen[M]ay to YTMND to /b/ to Digg to Reddit to here person-thing.

@Nouveau_Burnswick@lemmy.world · 2Y

I think StumbleUpon was between Slashdot and Digg. But my timeline may be off.

mifan · 2Y

I went from StumbleUpon to Digg to Reddit and now here …

@abbadon420@lemm.ee · 2Y

I skipped Digg. It seems like it was a primarily American thing, right? Anyways, I went 4chan -> stumbledupon -> 9gag -> reddit -> lemmy

@los_chill@programming.dev · 2Y

Similar, but I was scared off of the toxic dumps like 4chan early on so really just started with StumbleUpon -> reddit -> lemmy.

Sisko Urso · 2Y

Wow I completely forgot about out StumbleUpom, I used to use that allot.

@Yendor@sh.itjust.works · 2Y

That was me, but I also had Facebook between Digg and Reddit.

@somedude@lemmy.ninja · 2Y

Anyone remember Fark?

@phase_change@sh.itjust.works · 2Y

Me too, but I’d put Usenet in there before Slashdot.

@perviouslyiner@lemm.ee · 2Y

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@UndefinedIsNotAFunction@programming.dev · 2Y

Not AOL Keywords between those two?

@ludwig@reddthat.com · 2Y

I never used Digg, but I discovered Reddit around the time just after the Digg exodus happened.

@mysoulishome@lemmy.world · 2Y

@Got_Bent@lemmy.world · 2Y

I was active on the snopes message board before Reddit. Snopes went all to hell right around the time I switched. Now the message boards are gone and the site itself is mostly the owner asking for money.

@PlexSheep@feddit.de · 2Y

I’m too young for Digg.

@Syll@lemmy.world · 2Y

Raises hand

@devious@lemmy.world · 2Y

Put it this way, I still remember the drama around MrBabyMan and other power users!

Thales · 2Y

OMG we all hated him so much. Every single post on the front page was from him. Then v4 came along and that was it, everyone left.

The Cuuuuube · 2Y

I was using Stumbleupon back in Digg’s day

@orangeNgreen@lemmy.world · 2Y

I was a casual lurker of Digg. I would open it up and scroll through for a bit, never spending more than 20 minutes or so just looking for something interesting to read. I don’t think I even knew it “died.”

In 2013 I joined Reddit, and somehow began spending hours reading posts and comments, and then becoming a poster/commenter myself.

@saegiru@lemmy.world · 2Y

I was and used to watch the Diggnation podcast all the time. Loved Digg in its heyday, and it was sad when it went downhill. Reddit ended up being excellent though, and better than Digg ended up being. Sucks that it died too, but hopefully the Fediverse ends up finally being the chosen one.

@UndefinedIsNotAFunction@programming.dev · 2Y

Remember when podcasts were just audio? I guess I’m old.

@saegiru@lemmy.world · 2Y

Remember when there weren’t podcasts at all and you would have to get on a radio station to broadcast stuff?

@UndefinedIsNotAFunction@programming.dev · 2Y

Oh man, a few months ago my kid found an old boombox in the garage. It was awesome showing him “ok, here’s the knob and how you change stations” and explaining why he couldn’t just pick the song he wanted lol.

@Robertej92@lemmy.world · 2Y

StumbleUpon and RSS feeds were my go to for internet aggregation before I ended up on Reddit.