They are referring to digg who set up most AMA.

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about 1 year ago

Or is it a success because Reddit Inc has shown its hand of not giving a shit about your average user and this site will bleed users as they, especially power users who actually post and moderate and build the communities in the first place flee to places where their countless hours of unpaid labor are appreciated (like lemmy, kbin, mastodon), and good old reddit becomes a ghost town like digg which is apparently…

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over 1 year ago

It’s the great unraveling. Communities are torn asunder. It’s could very well be the first step of Reddits fall. Or reddit will just look and feel very different afterwards. A husk of an aggregator. Go to digg.com right now to see what reddit might be.

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over 1 year ago

Reddit owes much of its success to the digg.com exodus, it would be fitting for its demise to be caused by a similar exodus.

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over 1 year ago

I went over to see what digg.com was up to these days. Their comment section is comprised of reddit comments. Brutal.

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over 1 year ago

I was here when the great exodus of digg.com when it used to be the userbase there but due to something like this all the users went to reddit and digg.com was no longer top ranked.

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over 1 year ago

I can see it easily becoming like how https://digg.com/ is today, except with major admin-run subreddits.

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over 1 year ago

It’s ironic, I remember when people fled digg.com to go to reddit because it was seen as a true alternative to the exact same thing happening. Now here we are lol.

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over 1 year ago

Reddit obviously does not agree with the protest. So just restrict or re-open all subreddits for users who want to use it. Banned mods and protesting app users then can go back to digg.com in protest.

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over 1 year ago

I heard about this new site called digg.com – how about we move there?

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over 1 year ago

So let me get this correct. The CEO makes horrible changes to the API for 3rd party apps, a majority of the users say WTF, the CEO holds a AMA and doubles down, users say WTF again, popular subreddits go dark, CEO triples down and says not changing anything. This is how to alienate your users and they start or move to a new website. Gee that sounds famiar, who else did this….oh right “digg.com” did something…

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over 1 year ago

For everyone saying that this will all blow over in a week, everyone will come back, this is all being blown out of proportion…I point you to Digg. They said the same thing.

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over 1 year ago

First there was Slashdot then then there was Fark and then Dig and then came along Reddit. It offered a unique platform for people of like interest to come together and discuss topics related to that interest.

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over 1 year ago

This is such a sad outlook man. You must not have been around for digg.com.

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over 1 year ago

The employees can take over modding like digg.com.

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over 1 year ago

Yeah, we’ll all just go back to digg.com!

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over 1 year ago

A good old reddit revolt would put reddit back in place. [Reddit CEO Steps down!](https://www.wired.com/2015/07/reddit-ceo-ellen-pao-steps-down-huffman-replacement/). Maybe it’s best if we f*k off from this stupid app and go to [wamble.com](https://wamble.com) or [digg.com](https://digg.com) and build our community there instead.

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over 1 year ago

And digg.com/ is still around though I have no idea of the relationship to the original.

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over 1 year ago

Ah cmon you are talking about digg.com right I know that website I thought you are talking about other digg.

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over 1 year ago

FYI, Digg still exists, but your point pretty much stands—it’s nowhere near as popular as it once was.

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over 1 year ago

Does anyone have the text where the autor compared digg.com to a vending machine that gave out wacky results and everyone loved it and then they fixed the vending machine and no one was interested any more.

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over 1 year ago