I heard mention of it occasionally, but that was also years after the initial move from Digg, so I can’t comment on what it was like first hand during the initial move time.
However, I don’t think anyone viewed Reddit as a “spite site” for Digg, Reddit was around for years and was semi-popular before Digg committed suicide. It was simply the natural move.
Lemmy on the other hand has been around for a little bit, since 2019 as far as I can tell, but a rather minimal userbase.
Certainly if we get to the point where Lemmy (and its current userbase at minimum) sticks around for a few more years, it’ll likely largely move past the whole Reddit fiasco. But it also needs a large variety of non-reddit-related content to interest users, otherwise this site will likely die before it gets there.
I didn’t hear mention of Digg for years
I heard mention of it occasionally, but that was also years after the initial move from Digg, so I can’t comment on what it was like first hand during the initial move time.
However, I don’t think anyone viewed Reddit as a “spite site” for Digg, Reddit was around for years and was semi-popular before Digg committed suicide. It was simply the natural move.
Lemmy on the other hand has been around for a little bit, since 2019 as far as I can tell, but a rather minimal userbase.
Certainly if we get to the point where Lemmy (and its current userbase at minimum) sticks around for a few more years, it’ll likely largely move past the whole Reddit fiasco. But it also needs a large variety of non-reddit-related content to interest users, otherwise this site will likely die before it gets there.
Digg memes were circulating on Reddit during that time. This will pass, but right now everyone is excited to be making a big change.