• lechatron@lemmy.today
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    8 months ago

    This is the exact same thing Digg did when they released 4.0, which caused the huge Reddit migration almost 15 years ago.

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      8 months ago

      the problem is companies have weaponised complacency, there’s too many people that don’t care and that’s why they keep getting away with it. do it enough times and people will begin to think it’s inevitable and just put up with it.

    • bobs_monkey@lemm.ee
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      8 months ago

      Digg was also much smaller than reddit is today, with an even smaller amount of content contributors. Once the contributors moved to reddit, Digg was all but dead and everyone followed suit.