owiseedoubleyou to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml • edit-22 years agoHow many of you were using Digg during its prime?message-square184fedilinkarrow-up1488arrow-down114
arrow-up1474arrow-down1message-squareHow many of you were using Digg during its prime?owiseedoubleyou to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml • edit-22 years agomessage-square184fedilink
minus-square@Mereo@lemmy.calinkfedilink38•2 years 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@Crackhappy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish9•2 years 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