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Why is everyone so down on Digg?

Started by mathewi · 1 year ago

For whatever reason, there seems to be a segment of the blogosphere that sees “social bookmarking” sites like Digg.com and Reddit.com as the Internet’s equivalent of the trailer park - or maybe the local video-game parlour, if they still have those (Galaga ... Continue reading »

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  • Paul Kedrosky

    3 years ago

    Mathew -- I'm assuming your question was rhetorical. Because the reason why people are down on Digg [Ed. Cheap alliteration!] is the obvious one: It's easy to be down on Digg.

    Technologists don't like it because the underlying code is a hack (I get coders sending me sniffingly dismissive notes weekly about how easy it would be to do a Digg); and media sorts think Digg is declasse. After all, it's .... incoherent ... overly broad ... full of shock schlock ... and so on.

    Put the two together, and you have duelling constituencies of noisy Digg dissers [Ed. Enough with the "ds" already!].
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  • Eric Berlin

    3 years ago

    I think that some are resistant to the communal power of digg and reddit for a variety of reasons: it's sloppy, it's geeky, it's low brow... it's not "cool" enough.

    I like digg, even though I wish it weren't so tech focused. I actually wish that some of these platforms (and MAN are there are a lot of start-ups out there trying to cash in on the digg-model) had a "blog" or even "Internet" category -- what's up with the lack of that? The reddit model is really fun in my view as you can vote comments up and down, which really satisfies some kind of primal e-urge!

    And that's the thing with digg and reddit -- they're satisfying platforms because they meet some kind of intuitive need to interact with both information and other community members at the same time.

    I'm afraid to say that like it or not resistance truly is futile.

    As a side note, you've emerged as my favorite tech blogger Mathew, awesome stuff as always !
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  • Mathew

    3 years ago

    True enough, Paul.

    And thanks for the comment, Eric -- and the compliment.

    Mathew
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