For sure. I don't remember Fark, but when Digg went from being a tech-centric site to a despicable spam bucket I do remember everyone fleeing to Reddit.

Now that Reddit is trash, I guess all the serious tech people are already here... ?

Here being HN? IMHO it’s not competing with Reddit, at most with a sub or five. It’s also different to the point of just not being a replacement. Redditors are currently mostly looking at Lemmy. Not sure it’s ready for prime time either.

Yeah, I have a direct competitor to lemmy, and I feel like it's even less ready for an influx of users of the magnitude the reddit exodus will be.

I wasn't familiar with Reddit when Digg sold out; I just remember the exodus, and the topics on Reddit seemed tech-centric enough. Then over time there were more and more posts showing up on the front page with titles like, "This little guy followed me home," about puppies and whatnot.

I didn't even know what subReddits were; but now that I do, I'm baffled as to where the former Digg people were posting and why I managed to see mostly their traffic for days or weeks on Reddit without making any effort to go into a tech sub.

That was the old Reddit design, so maybe there was something fundamentally different about it.