Like a shared bookmarking space for the Internet. Graham pushed for an early release, so the two founders created a bunch of fake accounts and posted links to make the site look active.
But within a short time, they had gathered real, actual users posting real, actual links. It was Ohanian who came up with the name. Digg was waiting in the wings though. And all they saw was a cheap ripoff. Digg actually got its start first, launched at the end of But in just a few months, Digg had gathered together a few distinct advantages. They had a flourishing community, a fairly large team, and by the end of , millions of dollars in funding. Digg was destined to be the hottest new startup.
But they kept a close eye on Reddit. Huffman and Ohanian ended up pulling in two of their Y Combinator colleagues as co-owners of the company, Aaron Swartz and Chris Slowe. The team crammed into a single apartment and just kept on working, building their community and adding new features.
The aesthetic simplicity and anything goes mentality was a draw for a lot of people on the web. There were some talks of acquisitions over the years, but it was Conde Nast who had just finished purchasing Wired at the time that swooped in and acquired Reddit in late That would ultimately be where the problems for the company started, but it did lead to some pretty amazing innovations.
Digg, meanwhile, only continued to grow. The stories of Digg and Reddit are oft-told and well-trodden. It is, I think, no coincidence that they sprung up at the same time. The web had started out pretty small, and it was easy enough to follow all the stories you wanted to by just bookmarking a few homepages.
But more and more sites sprung up and things just got a lot harder to follow. Digg and Reddit were both built to meet the needs of an increasingly more isolated web audience. Their instinct was to bring people together. And yet how things played out of the two sites could not be any different. Their responses to the same kinds of situations of even more so. I encourage you to read up about the origins of both sites more. One small, one big. In response, they sent some strongly worded legal notices to Digg, and Digg pulled the story down.
Within a week or so Digg ended up putting the story back up after a wave of outrage from its users. If there is something particularly offensive or crude or even threatening to the site, they tend to just take it down even if their users throw a fit. Reddit has faced down the same kind of thing. One of the most influential additions to their site was the subreddit, a feature which essentially let users create their own section of the site, with its own mini-community.
Subreddit owners put together their own rules, enlist their own moderators, and what is kind of the point here, monitor their own content. There have been more than a few subreddits that are nothing more than dark pits of hate speech, or dangerous collections of violent individuals. In addition to the Top Stories, Popular and Upcoming post categories, you can sort posts by a fixed group of tag categories, including Fame, Music and Style.
Each Reddit submission features a comment section where users can discuss the submission. These comments can be voted up or down in the same way that individual posts can. While Digg used to feature a comment section, it has lacked one since its relaunch by the News.
Reddit features no built-in social media integration. User accounts are confined to the Reddit site, and the site does not have any way to link to an external social media account. Conversely, Digg is explicitly linked to both Facebook and Twitter.
In fact, users can sign in on the Digg front page with either their Facebook or Twitter accounts. Furthermore, the Digg promotional algorithm is programmed to reflect Facebook and Twitter activity. Serm Murmson is a writer, thinker, musician and many other things. He has a bachelor's degree in anthropology from the University of Chicago.
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