Never used it.
I was most active on Slashdot and Fark back then.
And then I migrated to Reddit.
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nah i lurked on /. for like 15 years and then made a reddit account that later got banned for being anti-white
I did, I was in high school at the time and I had just discovered Firefox. I remember it was a while before it was possible to have nested replies. Before Digg I think I just used StumbleUpon. Good times!
Yup
I couldn't speak English at that time, I can't speak now, though. :)
Me fail English? Unpossible!
It was my primary internet procrastination tool. Itβs been over a decade since using it though so I donβt remember it too well.
I never used Digg at all. Before the Internet consisted almost exclusively of "social media", I was mainly on topic-specific web forums run on software like phpBB and SMF.
I kinda dabbled in most of them, except 4chan. In no particular order: Various webrings, usenet, tumblr, stumbleupon, digg, kiro5hin, reddit, slashdot, twitter, lots of rss. More reading than posting.
I wasn't. Before Reddit I was on IRC.
I used to use my Blackberry to read Digg every morning in college while waiting for classes to start. It was great in its heyday, but maybe that's just nostalgia or that I'd not experienced anything quite like it prior.
I was a user of StumbleUpon at one point. I don't think I ever had an account on Digg.
I used Plime before reddit, around 2008. Hard to even find info on it these days, not that it was anything special; same general setup as digg or reddit or lemmy.
I hadn't even started middle school yet when Digg was at its peak. I've never even visited the site before. Wasn't a regular reddit user until 2014 or so.
You missed out. I graduated high school right when digg was peaking. It was a more innocent time. I've been through two social news migrations.
It's a shame that the reddit community couldn't get as organized as the digg community was when it came time to leave. The entirety of digg picked a day, and we all moved to reddit at the same time. I kid you not, the entire digg community fucked off all at once. I wish the same thing would have happened for Lemmy.
For me it was aimlessly wandering around -> 9gag -> imgur -> reddit. Never heard about digg before the API discussion.