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

Agreed. People still would have gone elsewhere even if Reddit didn't exist.

snorkel on July 13, 2012 [–]

Absolutely. Digg became so bad that if it were the only news web site on the net then newspapers would've had nothing to worry about.

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