I saw this comment on c/whitepeopletwitter, and it made me wonder if Reddit was like Lemmy in its early days as well? A lot of the communities here are more or less just Reddit but with (sometimes) different rules and mod teams. Most of the memes here are just yoinked off of Reddit (which to be fair, really is just how the internet works)
But yeah, in Reddit’s early days, were the communities there basically just clones of whatever form of communities Digg/other popular sites had at the time? Was most of the content just reposts of stuff from other sites?
Yes. There was also brutal infighting, scantly clad images of minors being protected by a cabal of disgusting moderators, including Spez and not to mention the doxxing. Lots of that too.
Almost forgot. They spoofed fake users to make the site appear more popular than it was.