Comment by ryzvonusef | Hacker News Reader

Comment by ryzvonusef | Hacker News Reader

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how about we don't fall into mass hysteria and wait?

People don't move from platforms, they drift away naturally.

I didn't move away from slashdot, I just found reddit suited my needs and naturally visited the site less and less.

and then, I didn't move from reddit to HN, I just used reddit less and less until I realized HN fit my niche more.

I still have my slashdot account, but it's been unused since 2014

with reddit, I deleted my account in a fit of depression... but hilariously I still visit the site regularly (much easier to track my various entertainments there), i just no longer comment there.

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I don't user Instagram because, I just don't... get it? Too old for it.

I deleted Facebook when I realized all my extended family was on it and I just didn't to see them on social media.

Who knows how I'll fare with Twitter. I rarely tweet (honestly, because I am afraid of speaking on the platform, public speech is dangerous in my country) but I regularly use it, because where else will I get my instant updates?

So I will go where the updates are.

> People don't move from platforms, they drift away naturally.

Digg has entered the chat.

You know what's funny about Digg? They made a stupid decision, lost all of their users to Reddit, and essentially shut down.

But! About one or two years ago they relaunched and started publishing mildly interesting stuff that I typically wouldn't see anywhere else. I'm guessing this got them users, because in the last months they changed most of their titles to clickbait, the quality of the articles went down, and they added comments where I've never seen anything but spam.

I don't know who cursed Digg or why, but they clearly did a thorough job.

somehow I skipped Digg altogether. Like I knew the site existed, but simply didn't enter my sphere of browsing.

The point combyn8tor is trying to make is that there was an exodus from Digg to Reddit and it happened rapidly. Digg didn't fade away as others did.

I know, but as some one who was a spectator to the drift, I feel it was an outlier.

There are always people threatening to move, but rarely does it happen (remember Voat?)

Digg is an outlier IMHO.

> Digg has entered the chat.

Where the “vocal minority” turned out to be everyone. Lol.

While I agree with your “slow drift” theory mostly, I also believe that the complexity of software/functions also decides how easy is it for a competitor to crop up and create your replica and take your share with better policies or better discovery mechanisms.

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