Isn't reddit a vision of its former self? If reddit isn't reddit anymore, only by name now, then poal would be 4th tier.
Hm.. interesting point. And honestly I'm a little concerned where we would be if we threw raddle.me into the mix for consideration.
Technically reddit is a better clone of digg.com, or what it used to be before 3.0 crashed the user base. And Digg.com used to be a user aggregated site instead of editor driven, like slashdot.net, and most major news sites.
so if those count, there's another two+ tiers of clone layers in your count.
Once you start counting layers, they all peal back to show the same innerds.
Is /. still a thing? Didn't they eat themselves many years ago?
/. is still posting, comments are user aggregated, but articles are editor submitted.
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