• MaoWasRight
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    1 year ago

    It was easier to leave digg back then. The ‘normie’ non-techie audience wasn’t as big in the era and they mostly stuck to MySpace and buzzfeed. Digg was where the tech nerds went and thus the nerds had the power.

    The non-techies are now the largest user base of reddit and they don’t care about the changes and will continue their usage. The executives know this and are moving things to curtail to that audience. These are the same people that don’t run adblock or ghostery and will click on ads and pay for awards.

    Huffman doesn’t give a shit about us or the small niche communities we have created. Forums are dead. Reddit powers Google. He wants to turn reddit into a social media platform, as it sorta already has become.