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[–] 33 points 3 years ago* (9 children)

*pre-2010 Digg

Digg after that was no longer competition. It was an ad-riddled trash-fire which drove a massive number of its users away to places like reddit... including myself... who just kinda did something similar with reddit.

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  • [–] 14 points 3 years ago (8 children)

    I went to Reddit from Digg during the great migration and I didn't look back. The Ads and format change were a huge misstep on their part. I honestly would have left Reddit when they went to New Reddit if we would have had Lemmy back then.

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  • [–] 11 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    when they went to New Reddit

    I never went to New Reddit...

    I would have left even if Lemmy didn't exist.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago

    Yeah, I jumped ship without a plan. After a couple days I remembered I had heard about Lemmy in one of the "What are you going to do on July 1st" posts.

    Am so happy with the results that I honestly no longer care what happens to reddit, I prefer this.

    Smaller? Sure, but it'll grow. Even if it tops out at current user base I wouldn't see that as a bad thing.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    I know it never left for PC and I used it over there but I was mostly a mobile user and killing Apollo destroyed my desire for reddit.

    I was also not a fan of some of the changes that affected everything like removing NSFW from r/all.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    Same. In fact I tried to find alternatives but there just wasn't one at the time.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    For now, yes. As clueless and inept as Spez has been about this whole thing, it's only a matter of time until old.reddit gets nuked.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    Yes but evenso site wide changes still affected old reddit. NSFW subs were still removed from r/all and the sponsored content was still there too. Not to mention all the bots and spam. I was also primarily a mobile user so killing Apollo was the end for me.

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