we knew we had the power position when lemmy’s world stood it’s ground and didn’t explode on the day before yesterday.

the thing that did happen with digg that didn’t happen with heaps of other websites was a negatively received UI change. people hated it.

now, people deliberately don’t use the reddit mobile app because it fucking sucks, and closing down the alternatives is a negative UI change …

you’ve got very good points there. personally i’v noticed that all of the defeatists / corporate shill are sticking almost exclusinvely to the same script. i wonder how actually co-ordinated it is