Digg vs. Reddit vs. Netscape – Who’s got the goods
First let me start by saying I’m an avid user of digg. I waste loads of time there every day. But digg is far from perfect and it’s pretty much degenerated into i-am-bored.com with voting.
I won’t bore anyone by describing what digg, reddit and netscape are. If you don’t know what they are get off the internet.
I’m not going to make this a pissing contest either. As far as I’m concerned, digg’s a great site and I enjoy using it pretty much every day. It’s probably got more users and more activity.
What I’m going to do is compare the quality. Each of those 3 sites describe themselves as being news oriented.
For the sake of simplicity, I’m only going to count actual news site links as “news”. That means some chump “reporting” a photo of something lame doesn’t count. And no, blogs aren’t “News” sites.
Top 10 “news” stories on digg.com, reddit.com and netscape.com.
| digg | netscape | |
|---|---|---|
| Meet The Next President of the United States of America - NewsDarwin’s Lost World - News Zio Systems reinvents the keyboard. (PIC!) Exclusive Sexy Pics Of The Vudu (AppleTV Killer) Special Report: Third Manhattan Apple store to dwarf them all Shootout: 8-core Mac Pro versus 4-core Mac Pro (UPDATED) George W. Bush and Richard Nixon and Their Startling Similarities Bill Moyers and Jon Stewart Discuss “Fake News” Only another 5,500 calories to go … Sen. Durbin Drops Bombshells on the Senate Floor |
Meet The Next President of the United States of America - NewsAsk Reddit: Reddit search sucks. Please fix it. - Use Google and stfu. Equador gives world 1 year to offer money. If it gets nothing, it will drill into its major oil field in the heart of the Amazon Unfortunate placement for a Yahoo ad [pic] Mike Gravel for President General Odom: Our Commander-in Chief has gone AWOL O’Reilly Attacks MediaMatters for Accurately Quoting Him Mike Gravel for President! Straightening out the Media Timeless prank: UW time capsule from ’50s reveals porn from ’70s Sen. Mike Gravel at SC Debates 04/26/07 (somebody with balls) |
Senior Bush admin Official Linked to Escort Service Resigns - NewsThe Misplaced Jubilance of the Anti-Abortion Right - News The White House Scales Back Talk of Iraq Progress Rocket Fuel Chemical Found in Food, Water Supply, And Us false pretender: The Anti-Bush Poster Collection – Click… Goodbye To The Normals France’s Royal in Bayrou debate Ancient camel bones found in Walmart Micheal Vick and pro dog fighting |
The tally looks like this:
- digg: 3 news stories
- reddit: 6 news stories.
- netscape: 8 if news stories
At a glance it looks like digg is the least newsish of the news sites, with netscape leading the world in relevance. While this isn’t by any means a conclusive study, I think anyone who uses digg secretly (or admittedly) knows the site’s become a link dump catering to short attention spans and younger ages.
Edit and kind of on-topic: There’s an interesting comparison of digg and stumbleupon here.
[...] got even less real news than usual, which I thought was actually impossible. The front page is dominated by this crap, the most [...]
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