owiseedoubleyou to [email protected] • edit-21 year agoHow many of you were using Digg during its prime?message-square141fedilinkarrow-up1428arrow-down116
arrow-up1412arrow-down1message-squareHow many of you were using Digg during its prime?owiseedoubleyou to [email protected] • edit-21 year agomessage-square141fedilink
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink36•1 year agoSlashdot -> Digg -> Reddit -> Lemmy. Back then, web servers didn’t have a lot of resources. So if a Digg post was popular, it could slow the site to a crawl. Then we all knew the site was being “Digged”.
minus-square@CrackhappylinkEnglish9•1 year agoI still have my slashdot account but don’t use it much other than niche interest stuff. But otherwise same path for me.
Slashdot -> Digg -> Reddit -> Lemmy. Back then, web servers didn’t have a lot of resources. So if a Digg post was popular, it could slow the site to a crawl. Then we all knew the site was being “Digged”.
I still have my slashdot account but don’t use it much other than niche interest stuff. But otherwise same path for me.
And before that, sites got slash dotted