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.

  • @zooper@lemmy.studio
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    248 days 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.

  • sunzu2
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    68 days ago

    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

    • bizarroland
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      148 days 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.

  • InfiniteGlitch
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    48 days ago

    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.

  • qaz
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    166 days ago

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

    • OpenStars
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      38 days ago

      Some of us already left Lemmy or never joined, for the likes of Mbin or PieFed (or eventually Sublinks?).

      Long live the Fediverse.

  • @stopforgettingit@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    156 days 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.

  • SwizzleStick
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    178 days ago

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

  • @pHr34kY@lemmy.world
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    108 days 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.

  • @Bell@lemmy.world
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    98 days ago

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

  • dantheclamman
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    187 days 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.