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by doublerabbit 1148 days ago
Digg had it first, Reddit was Digg's second cousin. Reddit never took off until Digg shot itself in the kneecap. Digg was where the "fresh content" came from.

If Digg hadn't made the v2.0 mistake; Reddit wouldn't be where it was now.

The accounts may of not been fake, but reddit for sure had many plants; it was even boasted by the administration team prior Conde Nest. And now it's more blatant than before.
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hayst4ck 1147 days ago
> Digg was where the "fresh content" came from.

This is not quite true. StumbleUpon is where fresh content came from. It was popularized on digg.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StumbleUpon

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doublerabbit 1147 days ago
Fancy that. Thanks for the update in history.

I guess before that it was Newgrounds.

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mattlondon 1148 days ago
Came here to say this. Reddit was this quaint tiny site that was a breath of fresh air after digg's self-destruction. In those days there were no sub-reddits, just the front page.

I left after sub-reddits started and it went to shit as a result. It has been downhill since then (at least for what I want). HN is much more like what the original Reddit was like. I can imagine that if HN gets "sub" things it will also self-deatruct like Reddit has.

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