{"id":3958,"date":"2022-04-02T23:49:43","date_gmt":"2022-04-02T23:49:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/?p=3958"},"modified":"2022-04-02T23:49:43","modified_gmt":"2022-04-02T23:49:43","slug":"digg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/2022\/04\/digg\/","title":{"rendered":"Digg"},"content":{"rendered":"

I like to scroll Reddit here and there and it always makes me think of Digg, because it\u2019s the exact clone. For some reason though I never ever hear about Digg, even in nostalgia-filled culture.<\/p>\n

Digg was huge during the mid-2000s. People will say that Reddit is way bigger now, but they forget that the entire web is WAY bigger now, too.<\/p>\n

Digg was about as big as Reddit is today in terms of influence towards dorks, nerds and geeks. But also, it was a rather brand new concept.<\/p>\n

The voting system hadn\u2019t really existed at that scale on the internet before. It attracted millions of folks, curating pretty well discussions, as we know.<\/p>\n

Living in France at that time, for the first time ever online there was a platform with interesting content and<\/em> tons of people reacting to it. Just like Reddit later, comments quickly became what Digg was all about.<\/p>\n

I learned so much about US\/UK\/AUS culture. Vocabulary, idioms, places, etc. It was so interesting and I laughed so much at comment threads. I remember a few times absolutely rolling on the floor. You know, when your sides hurt so much you keep whining \u201cstahhhp, just staaahp\u201d.<\/em> It was addictive.<\/p>\n

Then the HD-DVD key thing happened<\/a>. I have screenshots of my old Netvibes page.<\/p>\n

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It was WILD. They started moderating heavily and that was a wrap. Reddit looked like a terrible clone and I became one of those Digg refugees. Reddit was so raw and poor at that time, it wasn\u2019t looking like it would become the behemoth it became.<\/p>\n

But here we are with the same dorks, nerds and geeks albeit more international now. Same social patterns.<\/p>\n

And the same questions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I like to scroll Reddit here and there and it always makes me think of Digg, because it\u2019s the exact clone. For some reason though I never ever hear about Digg, even in nostalgia-filled culture. Digg was huge during the mid-2000s. People will say that Reddit is way bigger now, but they forget that the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3958"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3958"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3959,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3958\/revisions\/3959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}