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I joined reddit on the tailwind, so it was all echo chamber, we hate newcomers, gatekeeping, automod frenzy, too many rulebreakers, too many rules, etc I could be wrong, but thats what I imagine it used to be like.

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[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Others credit the GameFAQs forums closing. Which really tells you how long reddit's been around.

A bunch of websites circa 2008 basically won the internet, and would be dominant essentially forever if they hadn't all started lighting themselves on fire circa 2020. Apparently because of interest rates. I am no ardent anti-capitalist, but I can definitely say, this specific arrangement has been thoroughly fucky, and its collapse has been deeply stupid.

[–] realitista@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Digg collapse was very similar. Digg was very clearly the "winner" at that time in terms of user numbers, but killed themselves in a very similar way as Reddit does now.

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

The word enshittification didn't exist at the time, but the concept predates either website. It nearly predates the web. Stop talking to each other and start buying things.