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I think people don’t realise how old Reddit is, it was smaller than Lemmy is now when I first started using it.

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and no subreddits! i was there too! it really started gaining traction and losing technical users when the ‘image macros’ started… memes took over

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Obligatory image macros =/= memes.

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I remember back when people were so pedantic over that. Happy people don’t really care anymore

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Social media in general was also a lot smaller back then too.

Until the iPhone got popular you had to use a computer to access it. And back then we didn’t really trust sleep mode very much so you had to wait 2 minutes for windows to boot when you wanted to go on the net. VS right now I’m standing in from of my clothes not getting ready for work for 45 seconds.

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Wait to boot? Back then I had a dozen machines all running 24/7 lol. But I guess the average user on the consumer side yeah.

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it was smaller than Lemmy is now when I first started using it.

so now we know whom to blame for its enshittification

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It also took death of a platform “Digg” to jump start its growth.

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And it’s arguably in the process of dying itself right now, in quality if not in user count yet.

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haha this is not true… dude i was there, digg came/went and little impact on reddits user base

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I was there too i was one of the ones that jumped over. I know its a big internet so maybe we both had different experiences. So maybe you are right and the timing was just a correlation and not causation.

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