Lemmy.world grew from around 51000 total users the moment 3rd party reddit apps started to shut down on June 30 to 71000 total users at the time of this post (July 1). That's a 40% growth in about 12 hours!

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[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

If I recall correctly, Digg made some weirdo policy about officially recognized channels had priority over community posts?

Claiming they were trying to improve the quality and trustworthiness of their content.

They also made a redesign, so frontpage became 90% pictures, more suitable for people with zero attention span.

As I recall it, Digg "died" super fast after that. Of course technically Digg still exist, but it's nothing compared to when at its height, it became an internet buzzword much like "to Google it" still is to day.

[–] trouser_mouse@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Yes! Digg was pretty dramatic in how it fell from grace I think, whereas some other platforms have limped along slowly for quite a while after their prime, a bit like me.

[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Yes the problem was that they changed the concept entirely, and the change was to a concept that simply didn't work. The idea of "approved" content, was so lame everybody left.

Personally I had already left for reddit at that time, but the original idea with Digg was pretty cute though, they had a little icon of a spade, and you could digg up or down. Same as up/down vote on reddit.

Somehow reddit was just better, with it's way more text based design, maybe because it looked a bit like a colorcoding editor for programmers. for whatever reason reddit quickly had way better content than Digg, despite Digg was more famous and had a clear head start.