I can only compare my observation of reddit over the last few days and the one that I made of Digg years back.
The Digg-to-reddit migration seemed to happen in a big burst, and leave Digg gasping for air. In contrast, a significant amount of reddit users this time seem to be very unwilling to migrate this time since the big deal was about internal corporate politics and not opening up the feed willy-nilly to advertisers and posters primarily interested in gaming the voting system, as was the case with Digg.
As for the reddit-to-Snapzu migration itself, I'm guessing that a large amount of reddit users who flocked over belong to two categories:
1. People who enjoyed the default subreddits and were previously willing to put up with the vocal minority of disgruntled users before all the ugly attacks on Pao and uncomfortably outward support for hateful subreddits like /r/fatpeoplehate, and
2. People like myself who had unsubscribed from the default subreddits long ago and are still happy with more niche subreddits like /r/toronto or /r/emacs but are joining Snapzu all the same in search of that same feeling we used to get from browsing the default subreddits 'back in the day'.
I can only compare my observation of reddit over the last few days and the one that I made of Digg years back.
The Digg-to-reddit migration seemed to happen in a big burst, and leave Digg gasping for air. In contrast, a significant amount of reddit users this time seem to be very unwilling to migrate this time since the big deal was about internal corporate politics and not opening up the feed willy-nilly to advertisers and posters primarily interested in gaming the voting system, as was the case with Digg.
As for the reddit-to-Snapzu migration itself, I'm guessing that a large amount of reddit users who flocked over belong to two categories:
1. People who enjoyed the default subreddits and were previously willing to put up with the vocal minority of disgruntled users before all the ugly attacks on Pao and uncomfortably outward support for hateful subreddits like /r/fatpeoplehate, and
2. People like myself who had unsubscribed from the default subreddits long ago and are still happy with more niche subreddits like /r/toronto or /r/emacs but are joining Snapzu all the same in search of that same feeling we used to get from browsing the default subreddits 'back in the day'.