How exactly did Reddit become a top website and what does Lemmy need to do to eventually get there? - eviltoast

Did Reddit get massive because of Digg users making a beeline towards them or were they already big before that?

  • Myrbolg@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    That’s interesting to see this steady decline way before the most controversial changes.

    • waterbogan@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I think that may be stemming from the earlier changes when they shut down a large number of fairly popular but controversial subs, that drove some active commenters away. Plus they started getting very ban happy in the last couple of years, that absolutely has a damping effect