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What even was the name of the other place anyways? Farttit? Boreeit? Reekkit? (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Digg was the site that originally popularized up-votes and down-votes that are so typical on online posts today. But, despite Digg's pioneering introduction of this feature to internet culture it was the very up-votes and down-votes that led to its downfall in the first place.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Digg was the site that originally popularized up-votes and down-votes that are so typical on online posts today.

No. Slashdot was doing that, and was popular before Digg launched. Reddit also launched before Digg was popular, about 6 months after Digg did.

Meanwhile, algorithms that ranked content based on user votes were taking over all the web 2.0 darlings, including Flickr's "interestingness" ranking system, by the mid 2000's. Even outside of ordering comment threads, silicon valley was enamored with the idea of crowdsourcing indicators of popularity, and building algorithms around star ratings (including offline stuff like Netflix's DVD by mail, OkCupid's matching ratings for online dating, etc.)

I see Digg's use of voting as merely reflective of the overall trends in the mid-2000's. They certainly didn't invent it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Reddit founded June 23, 2005; 19 years ago.

DIGG founded November 2004; 20 years ago.

I watched Screensavers in 2004 when Kevin Rose demonstrated the upvoting aka Digg up and down/bury.

Slashdot was around, but I don't remember people commenting on getting votes except for the articles and the moderators were responsible for rating the comments.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

including offline stuff like Netflix’s DVD by mail, OkCupid’s matching ratings for online dating

And they worked, but too damn well to actually weasel marketing into