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Most of the time, I have been a lurker without an account and only bothered to make an account or even log in with said account whenever I had to ask a question or answer something I knew about well.

I like forums and sites where you don't have to have an account to post/reply. However, with the growing issues with bots/sockpuppets/trolls and general troublemaker those beautiful vestige of an old trusting era are getting rarer and rarer (still lively, vibrant and growing as they and new services transitions to local networks/intranet though).

In any case, the internet has always been in constant flux. Nevertheless, I have always adapted myself with the changes and try not to put too many eggs in a single or few services. I usually prefer systems and services I can run/host myself for family, friends and myself.

I was a Slashdot -> Digg -> Reddit -> Lemmy (and actually quite a bit of imgur) wanderer.

I did do some local/regional dialup boards before that too.

I was reading /. when they opened up account registration and my friends got 4 digit ids, but I didn't sign up right away and have a 5 digit one. At the time it was of great import. I tried it last year. Still works.

I moved to Reddit from Digg with the great pre v4 exodus.

DIGGnation!

Digg was amazing till they ruined it. =\

What is Digg?

I was really active Digg user and later HackerNews when it was really about hacking and not startups bs.

I was active on the snopes message board before Reddit. Snopes went all to hell right around the time I switched. Now the message boards are gone and the site itself is mostly the owner asking for money.

I even went to Diggnation Live, here in London.

nah i lurked on /. for like 15 years and then made a reddit account that later got banned for being anti-white

I joined Digg sometime around 2008 when the first videos of those crazy Russians climbing giant cranes first hit the web. I was over the moon with Digg but around 2010 one of my college roommates started yammering about this site Reddit and how much better it was. I don't think I actually visited Reddit until 2011, and even then I lurked for a year before I even made an account and started commenting on things. But the downfall of Digg and rise of Reddit was swift, and back then when Aaron was alive it really was a great site.

Even though I was in the prime age group for Digg, I shockingly never even heard of it until after I became a Reddit user and heard tales of its demise.

StumbleUpon was my main Internet resource during those years. I still miss it.

I used it a little bit, not extensively. I watched Diggnation with Kevin and Alex though semi-regularly, as I used to watch TechTV prior to that.

Yeah it was a huge event, felt like a giant online protest, and from my perspective it was the beginning of the end for Digg, and signaled it's decline.

I was on digg as well as reddit. I always liked reddit a lot better and was always baffled as to why digg was so much more popular. Reddit always felt more diverse (in topics) and organic (user driven) to me. I guess others had a different view.

Sadly, no one no one seems to remember kuro5hin. Barely even me. It had its moments though.

I used to use my Blackberry to read Digg every morning in college while waiting for classes to start. It was great in its heyday, but maybe that's just nostalgia or that I'd not experienced anything quite like it prior.

I'd love to have diggnation back

Went from arguing about the iraq war on forums, then to 4chan, then to reddit, now im here. The tone and culture of reddit was always better than Digg. The decline was very slow but perceptible. I've always tried to be polite and forthright in my comments but Looking back, i was probably the shitty troll commenter that everyone hated.

I used to think that reading links and comments on reddit was so incredibly important for my development and education.

Almost never did, to be honest, but I'm sure I missed out on a lot of interesting stuff because of it.

I wasn't. Before Reddit I was on IRC.

I still use Digg.

I'm too young for Digg.

For me it was aimlessly wandering around -> 9gag -> imgur -> reddit. Never heard about digg before the API discussion.