What happened when people switched to reddit?
I was around at the time, but I went from /. and/or forums to nothing to reddit. I was also about 5-7 years late to reddit
What were the prevalent reddit like boards at the time doing such that reddit became popular?
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A bunch of nerds and atheist talking about nerdy things plus memes. Basically just like Lemmy.
Sure, that’s how I came upon it too.
Was there a catastrophic event like the Reddit API change that led people to make a switch?
Look up Digg v4. I was mainly a digg user until this point in Aug 2010. They redesigned the website and took away the downvote button. There were also increasing concerns from the frequent posters that the front page was getting more and more monolithic, you'd see like 20 stories from 2-3 websites at the top all the time.
Switching over to Reddit at first was hard. The site wasn't "pretty" like digg and the content was much more unfiltered. It was like moving out to the wild west - rough, a little scary, and had a ton to explore
Digg did a site redesign that everyone hated. That was a big shift.
Lol I love your comment. It was pure awesomeness, just like Lemmy is now!
The general subreddit https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/ was archived in 2011; pretty good at showing what the front page was like back then.