On: Why Digg Lost #1 Spot to Reddit

[navyrain]

I think this flippant comment requires some proof to be taken seriously. Its hard to believe digg got to where it was by being repellant to 99% of the population.

[ojbyrne → navyrain]

It's the standard conservative/libertarian line on what was wrong with Digg. As if 99% of the population is conservative/libertarian.

[ataggart → ojbyrne]

>conservative/libertarian

1. That's an ignorant conjoining

2. Libertarians are well aware they're members of a vanishingly small minority

[siglesias → ojbyrne]

Political affiliation is only one of many ideological and demographic dividing lines that the Digg power users carved out.

[SkyMarshal → navyrain]

That probably works out, actually. Given that the US population is ~300M, Digg getting 1% of that would give them 3M, which is somewhere around their userbase, plus or minus a few million (I don't know their numbers, but Reddit by comparison recently hit something like 8M uniques/month).

Of course, not all 300M US citizens are online, so adjust as necessary. Digg probably got something like 1%-5% of the US online population, which was enough to get it to where it was.