[hayst4ck]

When looking up Digg on wikipedia I found this gem:

  Alexis Ohanian, founder of rival site Reddit, said in an open letter to Rose:

    this new version of digg reeks of VC meddling. It's cobbling
    together features from more popular sites and departing from
    the core of digg, which was to "give the power back to the people."

Apparently nobody can resist the allure of VC meddling.

[tough]

Funny both Alexis is a VC now, and he actually invested in kevin's NFT 10k PFP (Moonbrids)

The Reddit Mafia

[notatoad]

reddit basically became everything the founders mocked when they first started it. https://sp.reddit.com/reddit2.html

[tough]

That's why you never sell yourself as the hero,

Or you'll just wait long enough to become the villain

[jefftk]

But modern reddit isn't really very similar to what they're mocking? Here's the joke mockup: https://sp.reddit.com/reddit2mockup.jpg

Open reddit now and there's no silly unusable tag clouds, no top-of-page ads, no 3rd-party ad serving, no gradients, no overdone logo, no tagline, no allcaps headings, no giant voting arrows...

[SilverBirch]

The specifics are different but the trend is the same. Most HN posts from Reddit are old.Reddit.com, you try and view a Reddit page on mobile? Screw you, download the app.they’re doing the exact same thing digg did, the trends are just a decade later.

[bigcloud1299]

Let’s admit modern Reddit is probably half porn and only fans site. I don’t have quantifiable data but the way I see people on Twitter complain about porn on Twitter. I can only assume.

[jefftk]

That's even farther from "basically became everything the founders mocked when they first started it"!

[satvikpendem]

Well, this happens for every service over time, as companies decide to put profit over their users: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/enshittification