The difference was Reddit had already built up a reasonably comparable audience when Digg imploded so the migration was easy. If you look at a similar graph of Reddit today and Lemmy/Kbin, you probably wouldn’t even see these tools register with the active user base of Reddit so high. I think “rhyme” of history is that another service will eventually win, and it might be ours, but it’s more akin to the fall of the British Empire than an overnight event.
This is so true. Might catch heat for this, but I actually like TikTok and use the app most days. The last thing I want from a content aggregator is a reposting of the same things that are popular on another app. If I want to watch TikTok videos, I’ll open TikTok.
The irony of the situation is that it’s very popular on Reddit to hate TikTok, and yet TikTok videos are constantly getting upvoted to the front page. It’s almost as if most redditors actually do like TikTok videos, but they also like to constantly demonstrate how unique they are by making sure everyone knows how much they hate popular thing.
The difference was Reddit had already built up a reasonably comparable audience when Digg imploded so the migration was easy. If you look at a similar graph of Reddit today and Lemmy/Kbin, you probably wouldn’t even see these tools register with the active user base of Reddit so high. I think “rhyme” of history is that another service will eventually win, and it might be ours, but it’s more akin to the fall of the British Empire than an overnight event.
Digg had bled users to reddit over the course of a few years before the big one. Many users had accounts on both for that period as well.
“This was on reddit yesterday” was a top comment on Digg often enough.
Yeah, Reddit seems like a place where TikTok videos live on forever.
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This is so true. Might catch heat for this, but I actually like TikTok and use the app most days. The last thing I want from a content aggregator is a reposting of the same things that are popular on another app. If I want to watch TikTok videos, I’ll open TikTok.
The irony of the situation is that it’s very popular on Reddit to hate TikTok, and yet TikTok videos are constantly getting upvoted to the front page. It’s almost as if most redditors actually do like TikTok videos, but they also like to constantly demonstrate how unique they are by making sure everyone knows how much they hate popular thing.