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[-] xenomor@lemmy.world 42 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Not sure why any developer who isn’t a self-loathing masochist would work for these clowns ever again. Rose was a brittle little bitch who threw his own dev team under the bus when Digg 4 bombed. Somehow I doubt that years of fattening up while marinating in venture capital and crypto wealth have matured that shallow tea-sucking fucker in any meaningful way.

[-] singletona@lemmy.world 38 points 1 month ago
  1. Digg was still around?

  2. Yea this is gonna go badly....

[-] gdog05@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago

Based on the first episode of Diggnation reboot, Kevin Rose is just another empty tech bro now (maybe always?). I have zero positive expectations of this new Digg venture and that's probably optimistic.

[-] MuskyMelon@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago

I left Digg V2 when it went to shit, to Reddit. Now that the same is happening to Reddit (fuck spez), interested to see what Digg Reboot would be like.

[-] andyburke@fedia.io 22 points 1 month ago

You're here now. There's not an ad in sight. Actually people talking to you.

Why do you want to go check out some corpo bullshit?.I am serious. I don't understand why people want our chat forums to be run by venture capital.

[-] MuskyMelon@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

I'm curious as an ex-Digger. Even if it's corpo bullshit, better to see it first to have an opinion.

[-] andyburke@fedia.io 4 points 1 month ago

What lesson didn't you learn the first time that you feel like you need to learn again?

[-] Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It comes down to this, maybe they can improve upon something. They're talking about building something resistant to political trolling, hate speech, and misinformation. If they can do that, that would be valuable. I'm willing to wait and see.

I'm willing to wait and see, especially because Lemmy has no defense against that kind of thing. I think there's probably less hate speech and misinformation on Lemmy than reddit right now, but if Lemmy became the dominating service, it would have massive problems, just like reddit.

I like the federation aspect of Lemmy, that feels extremely valuable, I'm not discounting that. But I think not being open to other options or ideas is plain stupid.

[-] NightOwl@lemmy.one 1 points 1 month ago

I wouldn't expect much from a grifter who was involved in nfts.

[-] Ickabod@lemm.ee 15 points 1 month ago

AI... AI Everywhere

[-] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago

Where we’re really going is, a year, year and a half from now, is when you come to Digg, it’s going to be very much more like the leap that happened to Figma, where it’s free form, it’s dynamic, it’s an interface that is unlike any other that you’ve seen,” says Rose. “It’s not your old-school forums

Umm. Figma’s UI is exactly something people saw before. It’s aggressively based on Sketch’s UI.

Figma blew up because it was free for non-enterprise use, had Invision-style prototyping built-in, it was a more performant than Sketch, and they were adding features faster than Sketch could.

And FigJam is just a Miro / Mural clone. But that is also very performant, and they had some silly features / plugins that made work fun.

[-] simplejack@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago
[-] paraphrand@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Wow, I was confused who it was at first.

[-] MNByChoice@midwest.social 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Who? Why should we care about them taking over? Is this seen as positive for the platform?

[-] CaptDust@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Reddit (and by extension, Lemmy) likely wouldn't exist without Kevin Rose. He both popularized the concept of user driven link aggregators and royally screwed digg during a big redesign, pushing the users to reddit.

Alexis Ohanian is generally considered a "better" cofounder of reddit (or atleast, not spez). I think the two combining forces to relaunch an OG site is newsworthy.

If it's a positive, will remain to be seen. I won't go back to a closed/non-federated platform, personally.

[-] MNByChoice@midwest.social 4 points 1 month ago

Thank you! I apricot your clear response.

[-] andyburke@fedia.io 2 points 1 month ago

Nor will I and so I would argue this actually isn't newsworthy here.

I don't need to hear about anyone getting a bunch of money to cook up a shit stew in case anyone was wondering. You can miss me with that "news."

[-] MagnyusG@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

Kevin Rose is one of the co-founders of Digg, and Alexis Ohanian is one of the co-founders of Reddit. Considering the "success" of both sites it could be a big deal, but more than likely it'll just try to pass itself off as a Reddit alternative that'll eventually go to shit or implement a bunch of AI and crypto bullshit.

[-] giacomo@lemm.ee 7 points 1 month ago
[-] sk8boy204@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

The new Diggnation podcasts have been pretty great with that old feel somewhat back. I am holding out hope that this is a good thing and it won’t turn into some crypto bullshit.

[-] Glitterbomb@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

If he rebooted his first show The Broken, I would watch every second. It was seriously his best work.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNjoo9TuCHY

Edit: it's not a reboot if he doesn't bring back hacking with Ramzi.

[-] TomMasz@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

There's no reason to expect this to succeed, but I put my name on the list to be notified when it launches. We'll see, I guess.

[-] PhoreTwunny@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Wow those sure are some punchable faces

[-] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Oddly enough, I still went to Digg sometimes if I was stuck at work without anything else to look at.

Looks like another website is going into my website graveyard.

[-] SnotFlickerman 3 points 1 month ago

The only reason I have any hope for this is hoping Alexis Ohanians wife (Serena Williams) has been a good influence on him and making him understand how bad things really are right now.

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