• tj111@lemmy.fmhy.ml
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    1 year ago

    It’s 2010 all over again. We all used Digg and reddit was mostly for the techies. But as Digg kept digging its heels in, reddit become more and more palatable over time. Eventually it reached a critical mass and we all jumped ship and never looked back.

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      And a baseline of techies means a ton of people making the platform better which is why Reddit had so many people doing their job for free and they completely took that for granted and exploited that free work which every other tech company has to pay for itself.