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Re:Listen to Steve Huffman tell the story of how Reddit got ... by doublerabbit on Sunday April 23, 2023 @01:04PM (#35678083)
Digg had it first, Reddit was Digg's second cousin. Reddit never took off until Digg shot itself in the kneecap and 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 had many plants; it was even boasted by the administration team prior Conde Nest. Now it's more blatant than before.

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Re:Listen to Steve Huffman tell the story of how Reddit got ... by mattlondon on Sunday April 23, 2023 @01:17PM (#35678240)
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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Re:Listen to Steve Huffman tell the story of how Reddit got ... by hayst4ck on Sunday April 23, 2023 @03:41PM (#35679762)
> 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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Re:Listen to Steve Huffman tell the story of how Reddit got ... by doublerabbit on Sunday April 23, 2023 @05:30PM (#35680843)
Fancy that. Thanks for the update in history.

I guess before that it was Newgrounds.

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