This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Honestly, all I've ever really known was reddit. In 2011, I remember the cheezburger site having funny memes and seeing "reddit" mentioned a lot. Checked it out and liked it. Magical time back then. Chuck Testa, Tom Cruse, Rampart. sigh
Oh well, it sucks ass now and so far I'm enjoying Lemmy.
lol, sign up for updates? Doomed, fucking doomed
Why would you expect an aggregator-and-comment site bought and rebranded by reddit-cofounder O'Hanian to end up significantly different than his other aggregator-and-comment site?
If their best angle is to recycle a 20 year old brand ...well I can't imagine that will go very far
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Too late now...
Fedi4life
This digg is set up is to catch the normies exiting reddit so they don't end up here IMHO
Just another corpo set up
I haven’t thought about digg in 20 years. And I don’t intend to start now.
I care enough to say i don't give a shit about it.
It sucked so bad it died once and it's still a corpo owned platform. IDK why they want to suck twice 🤷🏻♂️
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I'm glad Kevin Rose is back on board. However AI Moderation concerns me. Greatly.
Digg was absolutely amazing when it was new, but it didn't take long to turn to shit for some reason, and reddit was way better during the old reddit/Digg war.
Fun thing is that reddit now does many of the same things Digg did before Digg turned completely away from its original concept.
I must admit my hopes for Digg becoming relevant for me again is near zero, like VERY near zero.
US americans trying to cash in on discontent with buzzwords like AI and trying to steal the thunder of actual worthy alternatives like lemmy. The fact Ohanian is part of the founders immediately places it into the shit tier bucket for me.
You're right. An even shittier reddit that failed due to extreme greed before? What's the point?
I'm rooting for them simply because I want to see Reddit and them fight. I'm not going to be switching, because I'm basically done with centralized ultracapitalist bullshit for personal use.
Preach!
100% this. Why would I go back to another centralized corpo line must go up service that will inevitably enshittify when we got lemmy right here?
Never tried it but I’m worried that they (too) will use AI for moderating and all that. AI as moderator for deleting, flagging and stuff is a bad idea.
Just look at Pinterest’s mess with AI that removes pins and ban accounts for no reason.
I’ll probably wait when Digg is rebooted and see how the early-adopters write about their experiences.
Meh, I've moved on. I was addicted to digg back in the day, but they'll have to earn viewership back from me. Not impossible, but content, moderation, and monitization are going to be hard to perfect these days.
Digg killed digg IMO. They either learned a lesson, or it's more of the same.
