Re:Mastodon.technology Shutdown
by pessimizer on Friday October 07, 2022 @11:13AM
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Now that Reddit is very respectable, we're supposed to pretend that it wasn't started as normie 4chan, even ripping off naming subsections like naked directories, just like every imageboard. A normie 4chan that got lucky by existing when digg decided to commit suicide.
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Not sure about the intentions of the reddit founders, to be honest, but at the beginning there were no subsections and the like. When they did show up they were implemented as sub-domains, for example http://programming.reddit.com . I can't exactly remember how much that lasted, but it was for more than a couple of months (I'd say for at least half a year) before the directory-thing was implemented.
The reddit founders bailed it within a year.
Then Aaron Swartz took over and made it successful until 2013.
After he was killed by the US govt the original founders came back and have been running it into the ground ever since.