yeah I gave up on digg, and moved over to reddit. And so have most of my friend.

It's like switching pubs after the last one has mistreated your mates.

And now Reddit has become a cesspool of DERP.

After four years I have gradually stopped using Reddit because wading through all the moronic meme chanting and pun threads simply isn't worth it anymore. And so have most of my friends.

Let's hope this place doesn't fill up with cat pictures and 'BREAKING' anytime soon.

Perhaps Digg fixing itself may return some of that Derp back where it came from. I haven't stopped using reddit though, as there are still some great mini communities that are the subreddits.

Going to be honest though, I am an ex-digg user, current reddit user, and just recently started checking out HN on a regular basis for the content and insight I feel has left reddit. Please don't hate me! :)

The good thing about reddit is that it allows you to have exactly as much seriousness as you want from it. Look into subscribing to some of the smaller and more focused subreddits instead: I'm subscribed to /r/compsci, /r/math, /r/PhilosophyOfScience and /r/electronicmusic. You're going to not find pun or meme threads in any of them.