Did they monetize it? I don’t remember that really. I think they just redesigned the site abruptly and the user base didn’t like the change and migrated. Anyway, still always liked the community and diggnation. The founder was always a bit less of a dick than spez, despite his flaws.
MolecularCactus1324@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Digg invented the category of social media that Lemmy is and it’s back
realitista@lemm.ee 2 months ago
And monetized it and completely mismanaged it to shit to the point the whole user base migrated to Reddit.
MolecularCactus1324@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Did they monetize it? I don’t remember that really. I think they just redesigned the site abruptly and the user base didn’t like the change and migrated. Anyway, still always liked the community and diggnation. The founder was always a bit less of a dick than spez, despite his flaws.
realitista@lemm.ee 2 months ago
At the time it was basically Reddit for stupid people.
Susaga@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
So it’s two steps backwards from Lemmy?