r/technology • u/marketrent • 29d ago

Social Media Reddit’s automatic moderation tool is flagging the word ‘Luigi’ as potentially violent — even in a Nintendo context

https://www.theverge.com/news/626139/reddit-luigi-mangione-automod-tool
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u/thinkless123 29d ago

Continent is relevant because some sites are mostly used in US or north america and never getting big in europe. So I presumed maybe it was mostly used there since I never hesrd of it but you seemed to assume everyone knows it.

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u/a0me 28d ago

You might not have spent much time online back then, which isn’t necessarily a bad thing, especially if you were young at the time.
In the 2000s, the internet was still mostly America-centric. Digg, however, was well-known enough outside the U.S. to be mentioned in news from various countries, like the UK, Germany, Spain, and France. They even hosted live shows in cities like London, Amsterdam, and Tokyo.

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u/thinkless123 28d ago

Interesting. When did it fall off? I tried to google that but found surprisingly little info on it. I did spend a lot of time online but I suppose in about 2000-2010 more on non english side as I was younger and didnt speak English so well yet

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u/a0me 28d ago

Digg’s traffic took a nosedive following the v4 update in the summer of 2010—an event often referred to as ‘the Digg exodus.’ By 2011-2012, the platform was essentially dead (I checked out my data from Digg Archive at the end of August 2012, which is also the time afaik that user accounts were disabled).