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submitted 4 months ago by aCosmicWave@lemm.ee to c/technology@lemmy.world

Not much info yet, but I grew up on Digg, so I’m cautiously optimistic. Probably no Fediverse support, but honestly, any Reddit alternative is a win. Really hoping for real API access and third-party apps.

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[-] Telorand@reddthat.com 149 points 4 months ago

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.

[-] harsh3466@lemmy.ml 61 points 4 months ago

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?

[-] Scrollone@feddit.it 7 points 4 months ago

I could like Digg if it was federated. But I bet it won't.

[-] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 4 months ago
[-] xnx@slrpnk.net 7 points 4 months ago

Its being recorded by Reddit cofounder Alexis ohanian. I don’t think they’ll fight lol

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[-] shittydwarf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 75 points 4 months ago
[-] Viri4thus@feddit.org 58 points 4 months ago

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.

[-] cronenthal@discuss.tchncs.de 34 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

You're right. An even shittier reddit that failed due to extreme greed before? What's the point?

[-] aleq@lemmy.world 13 points 4 months ago
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[-] aramis87@fedia.io 51 points 4 months ago

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?

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[-] small44@lemmy.world 45 points 4 months ago

AI for moderation worry me

[-] bizarroland@fedia.io 14 points 4 months ago

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.

[-] rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 37 points 4 months ago

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[-] dumples@midwest.social 8 points 4 months ago

I was there that day. In the before time

[-] ZephyrXero@lemmy.world 36 points 4 months ago

Why would I go back to Digg when we have Lemmy?

[-] simonced@lemmy.one 34 points 4 months ago

They say they'll use AI, so fuck them.

[-] weremacaque@lemmy.world 13 points 4 months ago

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.

[-] Zeron@lemmy.world 9 points 4 months ago

It absolutely will be. It's what's happening to twitter right now. Loads and loads of bots/ai posting "content."

[-] zooper@lemmy.studio 25 points 4 months ago

Didn't use dig but not going back to centralized link aggerators after what I saw happen with reddit over the years. CEOs can't be trusted.

[-] Numinous_Ylem@lemmy.world 24 points 4 months ago

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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[-] dantheclamman@lemmy.world 18 points 4 months ago

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.

[-] Ebby@lemmy.ssba.com 18 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

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.

[-] Empricorn@feddit.nl 18 points 4 months ago

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

[-] swizzlestick@lemmy.zip 17 points 4 months ago

With any luck, they'll take some of the users bailing out of Reddit on the nostalgia factor, become mediocre, and die. Again.

[-] qaz@lemmy.world 16 points 4 months ago

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

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[-] muhyb@programming.dev 16 points 4 months ago

You shouldn't expect a lot from a zombie.

[-] stopforgettingit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 4 months ago

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.

[-] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 15 points 4 months ago

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

[-] spacemanspiffy@lemmy.world 14 points 4 months ago

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

[-] MimicJar@lemmy.world 14 points 4 months ago

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.

[-] giacomo@lemm.ee 14 points 4 months ago

they should call it dugg.com

[-] lengau@midwest.social 14 points 4 months ago

It would be hilarious to see Digg restart as a Lemmy instance.

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[-] wwb4itcgas@lemm.ee 12 points 4 months ago

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.

[-] Buffalox@lemmy.world 12 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

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.

[-] StrawberryPigtails@lemmy.sdf.org 11 points 4 months ago

Dig long ago dug its grave. Then Reddit jumped in too. Long live Lemmy.

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[-] enub22@50501.chat 11 points 4 months ago

I don't digg it.

[-] pHr34kY@lemmy.world 10 points 4 months ago

I still remember the mass migration to reddit. Digg had an old website that didn't scale to their userbase. They deployed a new site, and everyone hated the design. They couldn't continue on the old website because it would crash and burn.

The important part is that Kevin, Alex and all of Digg were quite open and honest about the situation. At no point were they being jerks. They just couldn't keep manage the technical hurdles.

[-] SaltSong@startrek.website 10 points 4 months ago

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

[-] UpperBroccoli 9 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

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

[-] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 9 points 4 months ago

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

[-] Bell@lemmy.world 9 points 4 months ago

If their best angle is to recycle a 20 year old brand ...well I can't imagine that will go very far

[-] mp3@lemmy.ca 9 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

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.

[-] reiterationstation@lemm.ee 8 points 4 months ago

I don’t trust it.

[-] Float@startrek.website 8 points 4 months ago

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

[-] serendipity@aussie.zone 7 points 4 months ago

I don’t have high hopes. Kevin and Alexis had an opportunity to succeed with Digg and Reddit already. The enshittification of Digg was complete, there’s no going back. And Reddit, well, it’s Reddit.

We need something new and innovative, and I don’t see resurrecting a dead horse as adding any value to the current ecosystem of social and news apps.

[-] rocky1138@sh.itjust.works 7 points 4 months ago

Any alternative is not a win. Fediverse only moving forward.

[-] wampus@lemmy.ca 7 points 4 months ago

Reddit's seeing membership outflows resulting from their more draconian policies. Reddit boss restarts a competitor platform so that he can try and recapture users by owning his own competition, while trying to pretend like there's no conflict.

idk. Seems pretty suspect to me. Lemmy seems 'ok' for news aggregation, and it has a more community / local vibe to it. For example, I can have more confidence that the feeds I see on Lemmy.ca are more controlled / accountable to Canadians, rather than the heavily Americanized subs that exist in Reddit. And I can pick and choose which other subs to see, with better understanding of the likely biases that I'll encounter. This sort of end user transparency is really refreshing, especially given the burbling propaganda war being waged by the Americans at present against Canada.

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