I am, my fourth migration. First Orkut, then Digg, then Reddit, today seems Hubski is my new place.
I also migrated from Digg to Reddit, but Digg had really messed up by then. I don't know if I'm going to "migrate" from Reddit to Hubski, or just follow both for a while. I don't think Reddit is entirely messed up yet, and each site seems to have a different purpose. Reddit is big so it has a lot of content, but the discussion is becoming like an echo chamber except in smaller subreddits. Hubski doesn't seem to have a lot of content, but the discussion looks a lot more enriching. So it's breadth vs. depth.
I don't think it needs to be a "one or the other" type of thing either. I always say that I don't eat at just one restaurant and I don't go to just one bar/pub... why would I visit just one aggregator? I hope you enjoy your time here and there. Cheers!
I'll stick to hubski, but not because of some misplaced sense of loyalty. I waste enough time online as it is without having both reddit and hubski.
swedishbadgergirl I agree completely with you on this ^ very post. In fact I don't think I could have said it better.
I found out about hubski when there was the whole thing with the /r/technology sub controversy. I will be honest I haven't been back here much but obviously did make an account. With the new controversy on the up/downvotes system, I am feeling like reddit is making it's way to a /r/hailcorporate level and that saddens me. The admins are usually very responsive, but on this issue they have just been defensive. I think I might be migrating over here.
I don't know when you migrated, but Reddit was relatively small back then, it was so small that nobody cared to censor it or target it. Then a very quality content based userbase started to grow up, and as I said before, reddit's frontpage today would be digg's frontpage tomorrow, and because it was so obscure (first time I was in reddit it felt like an old bbs, didn't know what to do half of the time, and the discussion was nothing compared to what it is now, it was more like a thread of r/askhistorians, you wouldn't want to mess it in there if you didn't have you facts straight. But as you said, for the time being, one compliments the other. If hubski gains traction, I expect several exodus as Reddit gets too big and the admins keep screwing with the userbase.
This is my first. How does these things usually go?
You just stay around, try to contribute with quality content, then hopefully (or not) it will reach critical mass. One of the things I am starting to like about here is that it's so small, you already replied two of my comments in two different communities.
Although to be truthful, the only real migration was from Digg to Reddit. Orkut never caught up, and moving from Digg to Reddit was easy, at that time some posts on Digg were about complaining that Digg's that day frontpage was reddit's yesterdays frontpage. Moving out was simple, a slightly bigger community than here. Ss we are so few, we need to bring the content ourselves. Just post about what you like and eventually it will become bigger, like reddit (it wasn't what it is today, in some sense, here feels like that original reddit 7-8 years ago) I am trying to lure some redditors from r/Zennonet and r/Quest?, people in there are already willing to jump of the boat, they just need an incentive.
Thanks for the advice. I also like that it is small and a bit more user focused than reddit but still focused largely on the content and the discussions.
Looked into the first one, I remember hearing the name as a kid but didn't know anything about it. > On June 30, 2014, Google announced it will be closing Orkut on September 30, 2014. I don't know what's more surprising - that it's closing or that it's been kicking this whole time.
(So yeah, if you want to go back one last time for the nostalgia.)