2w ago

Post criticizing Reddit's new upvote policy hits 600 upvotes on r/RedditAlternatives. Feel free to chime in with your comparative experience of Lemmy.

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Learned about the upvotes policy change from this sub, so I wanted to share proof: it actually happened to me already.

If you still have a Reddit account, feel free to chime in with your experiences with Lemmy's upvote policy :)

https://old.reddit.com/r/RedditAlternatives/comments/1j77d46/learned_about_the_upvotes_policy_change_from_this/

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I see more mentions of Digg than Lemmy in that thread. Many Redditors still don't know about Lemmy.
- It's kinda wild that people think new Digg is going to be any kind of solution or alternative. It's the same shit wrapped in a different package
- I bet this is astroturfed.
- What is Digg?
  
  Reddit before Reddit. Another community link aggregation site where users would "digg" (upvote) the most interesting stories across a variety of categories. After an unpopular site redesign and a poor algorithm that favored a handful of power users, the userbase left en masse to join the competing platform, Reddit.
  In the wake of the entire userbase leaving, Digg turned into some kind of generic curated news site or something, nobody is really sure because nobody went there for like a solid 15 years. Just this month, original Digg co-founder Kevin Rose and Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian purchased Digg back from whoever the hell owned Digg lately intending to once again compete as a Reddit alternative.
  
  The long of it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digg
  The short of it: It was a version of reddit before reddit. The owners restructured the site for Digg v4, and when they did, they broke it pretty bad. The users all left and went to reddit, myself included.
  It looks like Digg is coming back with Kevin Rose in the driver's seat again, but it might be focused on AI generated articles and whatnot. If that's the case, I'm not interested.
  
  don't go anyway. they burnt us once. they'll do it again
  
  The Reddit alternative from before Reddit was big. At one point they were comparable in size and had a friendly rivalry, I believe in the late 2000s. Digg is no better than Reddit, they have had numerous migrations to Reddit from admin issues, if I remember right.

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