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**[[image:Reddup-small.png width="19" height="19" align="left"]]What is Digg?**

 * Digg.com was an experimental social news website designed back in 2004 (a year before Reddit). In the following year, Digg revamped their plain social news website to allow the community to "Digg" (agree/like) news links/articles submitted. Like Reddit, they are a Web 2.0 website that is listed as a "bookmarking" website on [|go2web20.net's] tagging system.


 * Since the explosive growth of traffic through Reddit in 2010, Digg is rarely talked about. This is comparable to MySpace/other social networks and the dawn of Facebook. However, despite lower traffic flow, Digg is still used by a niche community, and focuses more primarily on [important] world news.

**[[image:Reddup-small.png width="19" height="19" align="left"]]How are they Alike?**

 * Digg and Reddit are extremely similar in terms of how they provide content to the community/end-users. Both websites use a "bookmarking" feature that allows you to link from any other website, and provides a snapshot picture (if available).


 * Both websites also utilize *.css files to organize their website, separating content from formatting, allowing them to utilize "RSS Feeds" (//a.k.a "really simple syndication"//) which allows for quicker download of content by end-users using smartphones, or have limited bandwidth internet connections (i.e. the absence of images speeds up downloading of information/data)

**[[image:Reddup-small.png width="19" height="19" align="left"]]How are they Different?**

 * Despite the similarities, both websites are also different in their own ways. While Reddit incorporates all and any type of content, Digg is more centered around offering up to date news (similar to that of a global news website like reuters.com, but more casual); because of this (as pictured on the right), over the years, Digg has had considerably less traffic volume (or "hits") on their website, as they hone in on a niche target audience, while Reddit is open to any and all content.


 * Another distinguishing difference between these two bookmarking websites, is how the content is moderated. Reddit has a hierarchy of "authority", namely Administrators (which overlook Reddit as a whole and keep the website organize and maintains bandwidth, content, etc.) and Moderators. Moderators are generally of those in the community who volunteer themselves to maintain certain /r/subreddits, and keep topics relevant within them.


 * The most distinguishing difference between Reddit and Digg, however, is community input. Redditors are allowed to create a thread to ask questions and/or share their own content for community feedback, whereas Digg does not have this sort of option. By allowing users to do this, the "upvote/downvote" system along with the ability to comment within the thread, allows for the "OP" (original poster) to garner feedback from a vast community efficiently and quickly.

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