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antidaily on July 13, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Facebook Didn't Kill Digg, Reddit Did

I'm not so sure. Digg was pretty much already dead when that deal went through.

mibbitier on July 13, 2012 [–]

Not how I remember it at all. At that time Digg was quite a bit larger than Reddit. Then later Digg decided to really push the revenue generation, and users fled to the obvious free alternative.

antidaily on July 13, 2012 | [–]

2006 - You're totally right. My mistake.

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