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[โ€“] iesou@lemm.ee 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I found it through StumbleUpon, which until reading comments here I always thought was just a sweet browser plugin. Never knew it had a site beyond a landing page and download button. Stayed at Digg until a friend showed me Reddit after Digg started sucking.

[โ€“] Its_not_Dave@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Same.. Stumbleupon -> Digg -> Reddit -> Lemmy

I don't recall why I went away from SU but both the others were as a protest

[โ€“] iesou@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

For me it just became cumbersome stumbling over and over, finding useful or novel sites less and less often

[โ€“] oatscoop@midwest.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Weirdly enough for me: Digg -> Imgur -> Reddit -> Lemmy.

Imgur added user accounts just prior to Digg v4 going live.

[โ€“] o_oli@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Imgur having a community in itself always feels so funny to me. Like a group of forgotten humans feeding off the scraps of the rest of society that don't even know they exist.

[โ€“] oatscoop@midwest.social 2 points 1 year ago

I switched to Reddit when I realized I was basically one of those Futurama sewer mutants.