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I’ll tell you what happened with Digg:
there, now you're all caught up
Note how your quick summary skips a lot of information and views, that give people context on what happened. For example:
And yet it's unreasonable to expect anyone to remember everything about the events. And we [people in general] shouldn't even trust anyone in specific to begin with, because everyone [including you and me] is a bit biased and will cherry-pick a few details and ignore others. For that we'd need a central repository documenting the downfall of Digg, preferably from multiple users' PoVs. I think that this is important, because better knowledge of the past allows us to guide better our future actions.
Same deal here with Reddit.
Fark and Slashdot were always kinda centrally controlled. During the heyday of the internet frontier they were fresh and hilarious, but they never attracted younger people because it was just the same jokes over and over. And without building younger communities they died of irrelevance.
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
i think "hemorrhaging" is a strong term. the majority of people who used reddit (I had been on reddit pretty much since the beginning) used both sites. before the Digg v4 migration, reddit had been around for, oh, 3-4 years and had been growing slowly. as the rumors grew for a couple of months about the changes planned for v4, there was a sudden surge in new users on reddit, too, but it wasn't until the launch that the deluge really began.
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.