Technology

I am going back to /.

80% chance is going to be a crypto scam. 20% chance it's going to be a right wing cespool

Rose not listening to users is what killed he platform before, I seriously doubt he has gotten over that ego.

Not interested in what will most likely just be yet another right-wing bullshit platform.

Nah, it's gonna be ass, they haven't even launched and they are talking about AI. Totally tone deaf.

Dont care unless something significant happens

Sounds great in theory but proprietary/corpo owned websites don't matter one bit to me anymore.

Lemmy exists now. We don't need another corporation.

I'm not going to go back to a closed-source centralized platform

Yeah sure, this time the giant company won't enshittify.

I used to be on digg. Fuck digg, let's ddos these cunts. Then cook some reddit datacenters.

Its gonna be linked to reddit and theyll pretend its federated to take steam away from federated stuff like bluesky did to mastodon

I was looking forward to it, but then I got here, and find that it suits me.

Not interested. Ohanian wants to moderate it with AI which is an absolute nope from me. I also have mbin and that's fine for me. I guess the edge case that might make me visit it would be the handful of reddit communities I still use for Japan tax/legal/biz/etc. that won't move to the fediverse decided to move there. I guess that's preferable to occasionally using reddit.

My god, what's next, the most triumphant return of Geocities, replete with blinking text, construction signs and visitor counter?

No real info, so I am not hopeful and cynical.

My guess the new superpower is AI stuff or a shop to give them money for the memes.

I don’t trust it.

In 2025, that's like saying "Hey, we should go back to Myspace!" Myspace did a complete makeover, too. Does anybody care? No.

I am not optimistic. Kevin Rose spent the last few years doing crypto/NFT nonsense, and is now on the AI train. Plus, link aggregators have tried to double down on AI with mixed results. See the example of Artifact, which crashed and burned just last year. There is no business model for this, and if there were, I wouldn't trust Kevin Rose to deliver it. I say this as someone who was a massive Digg/Revision3/Diggnation fan as a teenager but grew disillusioned.

Thoughts? Frankly, none.

Digg lost its popularity for the same reason Reddit is. It started taking investment money and began to please only the share holders. Yeah it's private owned again, but they will just repeat the cycle because the temptation is there.

I've only been using Lemmy for a few months, but it seems to me that taking any instance public will not be a feasible business model. i don't recommend anyone go back to digg unless you just like watching enshitification happen. Should they reboot Ebaulmsworld while they're at it? I know that last statement struck a nerve!

I'm maxed out on social media. Lemmy is my main one. Then, there's Facebook so my old relatives can see baby pics. I'd rather not, but they're old and set in their ways. I have Discord strictly as a chat platform with my brother and a couple college buddies for gaming. I have LinkedIn for work, and never look at it. And finally, I watch YouTube (Revanced). That's it. There's no room for Digg anymore.