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Digg is about to be rebooted. Thoughts?
(reboot.digg.com)
they should call it dugg.com
The original Digg was an important site for me personally between 2005-2009, but only in that early era and mostly as a bridge between my Fark and Reddit eras. I honestly can't see it competing with Reddit's established user base or being as no-nonsense and free as Lemmy. I don't think it will gain traction and the AI aspect will turn a lot of people off from it.
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Really hoping for real API access and third-party apps.
I mean that's the only way it will have any success. I don't expect it to happen, but that's historically how any of these sites have grown and flourished.
It would be funny if Digg was able to successfully reboot and take users away from Reddit, however I don't expect it to actually happen.
Also, stating the obvious, time would be better spent improving Lemmy.
If there’s no MrBabyMan, why bother?
You shouldn't expect a lot from a zombie.
They say they'll use AI, so fuck them.
Yeah, the mention of AI is pretty ominous. It makes me wonder if AI would be used to fill in the gaps when the user base is too low.
Any alternative is not a win. Fediverse only moving forward.
I'm fine right here, thanks. Although I'd been using Reddit for some time at that point, I permanently left Digg as part of the Great Exodus. I don't see any particular appeal to going back to a centralized service, especially in the current climate.
With any luck, they'll take some of the users bailing out of Reddit on the nostalgia factor, become mediocre, and die. Again.
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.
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?
I could like Digg if it was federated. But I bet it won't.
Preach!
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?
They're probably skint and need a loan.
Problem is, they created it? Oops
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?
Lemmy has thunder?
I don't see any info on this from the sign up page on what it is and product differentiation. So.... I'm signing up because I like Kevin Rose...?
AI for moderation worry me
Yeah, isn't that what everyone wants?
A website where you talk to people and a robot with no oversight shows up and changes what you say, or silences you, or prevents you from talking to certain people.
At the same time though, I don't care if billionaires play rock and sock em robots with companies. It just kind of sucks for the people that work at those companies, being tools of a game for rich people to play.
Why would I go back to Digg when we have Lemmy?
Dig long ago dug its grave. Then Reddit jumped in too. Long live Lemmy.
Some of us already left Lemmy or never joined, for the likes of Mbin or PieFed (or eventually Sublinks?).
Long live the Fediverse.
Bought and revived by Alexis Ohanian? It can only turn out into a dumpster fire. It's probably just to diversify their data collection in case there's an actual massive Reddit exodus and the brand name becomes too toxic.
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.
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.
If their best angle is to recycle a 20 year old brand ...well I can't imagine that will go very far
I haven’t thought about digg in 20 years. And I don’t intend to start now.
I'm glad Kevin Rose is back on board. However AI Moderation concerns me. Greatly.
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. Will check out the new Digg though, just to support and help reddit die.
I care enough to say i don't give a shit about it.
It would be neat if they could get activityhub Integration. Then we can have Tumblr/digg pop up.
Instances admins would start to advocate to defederate from them just like with Meta's Threads IMO.
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.
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I wonder what they will do differently, this time around. This space is quite crowded already, and getting eye-balls is hard work !
lol, sign up for updates? Doomed, fucking doomed
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