Reddit existed and was frankly already winning the race with Digg before the Digg redesign, the "Digg moment" was just the cherry on top really.

There's no obvious alternative to reddit.

> There's no obvious alternative to reddit.

Less time on the internet. Social media seems to be dying and changing isnt it?

Untrue. Discord is the obvious alternative. Increasing numbers of communities are already there.

I am no expert on Discord, I frankly have used it little. But my impression is, it's a replacement for subreddits? Not a replacement for reddit in the whole? Is there a single feed of everything that's popular within Discord? Like the equivalent of the reddit front page?

No. Then again, I never use the reddit front page, and don't care (personally).

If subreddits move, reddit's front page won't avail them much.

So one would have to check every channels on every server they subscribe to, every day, just to see what's new? And you consider that a replacement for the Reddit home page?

I have several hundred subreddits, that would take me forever on discord.

While it’s not a 1:1 replacement, I have to agree this is the most likely alternative for niche communities to live. It’s already common for certain subreddits to have a discord server and direct users there.

Several banned/quarantined communities retreated to semi-private Discord servers.

Which is a good thing for reddit, toxic communities posting toxic garbage that drifts into /r/all isn't good for users or revenue.

A minority of the banned communities fit that description, though.

Regardless, I’m pointing out what is the current alternative.

Scanning over lists of banned communities, I wouldn't say it's a minority. It seems like that they're pretty predominantly awful groups of people posting awful things.

Do you think all banned/quarantined subreddits were "posting toxic garbage"?

The majority probably were.

Reddit's Digg moment was the horrible redesign. If they ever remove old.reddit.com the site will be unusable for me.