Is digg the new Slashdot?
Posted by Richard MacManus @ 9:11 pm

tech-recipes has a post comparing being linked to on digg to being Slashdotted (note: I found the post via digg's frontpage). digg has gained a lot of mindshare recently and people have told me that getting linked to on digg has a similar effect to being Slashdotted - i.e. a lot of links. According to tech-recipes, they are similar in other ways too - including:

  • digg users do not click ads
  • digg traffic does not generate new users, comments, or posts
  • Every site on the front page gets flamed in the comments
How is digg different than Slashdot? At the risk of incurring the wrath of anti-Web 2.0 types, digg is a very democratic and - yes - Web 2.0 system. With digg, users submit stories for review, as in Slashdot. But unlike Slashdot, digg doesn't have editors deciding which stories make it onto the homepage. The users make that decision collectively, by submitting their vote (a "digg") for each story they think is worthy.