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SNOOcalypse - document, discuss, and promote the downfall of Reddit.

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[The Verge] Reddit protest updates: news on the apps shutting down and Reddit’s fights with mods (www.theverge.com)
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Here's the list of highlights from the article, as it's a good TL;DR:

  • The Reddit app-pocalyse is here: Apollo, Sync, and BaconReader go dark
  • How Reddit crushed the biggest protest in its history
  • Reddit will remove mods of private communities unless they reopen
  • Reddit CEO Steve Huffman isn’t backing down: our full interview
  • Why disabled users joined the Reddit blackout
  • Apollo’s Christian Selig explains his fight with Reddit — and why users revolted
  • A developer says Reddit could charge him $20 million a year to keep his app working
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[–] lvxferre@lemmy.ml 11 points 2 years ago (22 children)

Pretty much, but it's useful to have such a summary to refer to. Specially in the future, as it'll be harder and harder over time to remember what was going on in Reddit, and why so many people left it. And one of my objectives with this comm is to document what happened with Reddit, it would be great if we did the same when Digg went downhill.

[–] BrooklynMan@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 years ago (5 children)

I’ll tell you what happened with Digg:

  1. Kevin Rose swears he'll listen to the community and not introduce a major overhaul which will bring several unpopular changes
  2. a month or so passes and Digg leadership thinks everyone is stupid and forgot
  3. Digg 4 launches and literally everyone leaves for reddit over the next couple of weeks.
  4. Fark and Slashdot collectively die laughing, then of being old curmudgeons

there, now you're all caught up

[–] JJROKCZ@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

You’re leaving out that Digg had been hemorrhaging users to Reddit for years due to better features and therefore better content. Diggv4 was just the final nail

[–] rusticus1773@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

You are wrong. Before Digg v4, it was a far better interface with better content than Reddit. Reddit was at best a marginal player and far smaller than Digg. I hated Reddit at the time and only begrudgingly switched because of what Rose did.

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