The original reddit was closer to hackernews than the generic site it is now. Not only that but spez has admitted that the original traffic was artificial, by which I mean, the owners themselves were creating fake engagement through various means, such as scraping and cross-posting content from sites like digg via sockpuppets to appear that the site had way more traffic than it had.
this post was submitted on 21 Nov 2023
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edit: I went through with it: !sockpuppetsociety@lemmy.ca , Message or reply and I'll make you a mod
Time to make a new original community on Lemmy, just for sock puppets.
Purpose: Art of sock puppets reenacting real life events. The art can be doodles on napkins, AI art, or real physical sock puppets.
I'd like to start off the community with this image
here's a free tool to help you generate images. https://tinybots.net/artbot/create
Pass existing images as img2img and use controlnets to follow an existing composition
Perfect, I'll link it in the sidebar
Ohhhh, i saw this place and thought huh really getting to be something for everyone, now i know the origins
It felt wacky enough that it was unlikely to be another clone 😄
Reddit was created as a Digg clone so there were no sub's and no comments, just links to up/down vote.
A lot of those links were scraped in an effort to make it seem popular. Both Aaron and Spez have admitted that.
Pretty much, but I think originally it didn't even have subreddits. What set it apart from digg was really the community and comments - the quality of which were much better than digg. Similarly to Lemmy it was originally much more tech related too.
It originally didn't even have comments, and when they eventually added them, the first comments were complaining about its inclusion.
That's a reddit moment right there
I don't recall Reddit having unique content - what I do remember however was that it had aggregated content. It filled the role of Slashdot, Fark, and other sites, and it had a comment threading system that was far more usable. The memes came after.
this is the truth. it was never about original content, it was a link aggregator with threaded discussion. and.. what communities? there were no subs when i started reddit.
The Reddit founders basicly stole all the content off Digg and it was a clone for a long time. Original reddit was very different from the garbage the site is now.
You know, I don't really remember this being the case. Albeit I was mostly a Stumble Upon user before reddit.
I'm thinking it's because reddit has had so long being the number one de facto place to go to form your community.
It's important to remember that internet culture and interactions themselves changed a lot from early days to now.
So actually, yes, Reddit did have a lot of "cloned" content that was just the same as what we were doing on previous platforms, but things were changing fast enough as to also make Reddit develop a personality of their own.
Lemmy could have that too... If we toned down the generic Linux memes.
Yeah the subjects were essentially the same, except the reddit comments were much more interesting to read than the digg comments.