I’m way too young to remember Digg. I signed up for Reddit in 2015, and I’ve heard talks here and there about the migration from Digg, but that’s it.

  • dan@lemm.ee
    22·
    1 year ago

    Sort of. Digg’s implosion was much more immediate, the changes directly impacted normal users so it was easier to mobilise people, and at the time Reddit was a bit more mature and easier to understand than Lemmy/etc is now.

    My guess is we’ll see much more of a Digg-like exodus once Apollo stops working and the average user sees an impact.

    • IncidentalIncidence@feddit.de
      1·
      1 year ago

      agreed. I’m still on reddit mostly for sports communities that I can’t replace here.

      When boost stops working, I’m not going to download the Reddit app. I’ll keep using it on desktop, but it’ll obviously be less, but if they kill old.reddit that’ll be it for me.

      I’m sure some people will just download the official app, but if there’s going to be a large drop in pageviews I would expect it to happen when the apps stop working.