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.
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.
Digg tried to make money off it’s communities ASAP and killed it. Reddit tried the slow burn: build up users for 15 years and then pull the rug. It’s hard making money from a site that has all it’s users do the work. The only value reddit has is automated infra, which in the days of auto scaling k8s clusters is not that unique.