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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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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!
Its being recorded by Reddit cofounder Alexis ohanian. I don’t think they’ll fight lol
He has nothing to lose by competing. He owns a stake in Reddit, and he’s rebooting a competitor. He wins either way, and striking out on his own has a better chance of making him more money than relying on his stake.
If he fails and Reddit “wins,” he still has his stake to fall back upon.
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.
Lemmy has thunder?
Yes. It’s an iOS client. 😏
You’re right. An even shittier reddit that failed due to extreme greed before? What’s the point?
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?
Why would I go back to Digg when we have Lemmy?
Shorter name.
We should rename lemmy to lem
I digg that comment!
Lemmy express that I really digg yours too. Had to laugh right after I reddit.
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.
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.
I don’t trust it.
I was looking forward to it, but then I got here, and find that it suits me.
Why would I care about a site that killed itself some 15 years ago being rebooted, especially taking into account that were on Lemmy, a federated system? I don’t care
Digg lost its popularity for the same reason Reddit is. It started taking investment money and began to please only the share holders. Yeah it’s private owned again, but they will just repeat the cycle because the temptation is there.
I’ve only been using Lemmy for a few months, but it seems to me that taking any instance public will not be a feasible business model. i don’t recommend anyone go back to digg unless you just like watching enshitification happen. Should they reboot Ebaulmsworld while they’re at it? I know that last statement struck a nerve!
was ebaulmsworld something that was before digg?
Yes, and no English language site other than 4chan has been a larger part of early English language internet culture than ebaumsworld. So many things started there.
that one must have collapsed quite thoroughly. i havent seen even a mention to it before now
Seriously? It’s foundational to the history of the internet. If an image macro format, what the kids call memes, didn’t start on /b/ it started on ebaumsworld.
Let’s not forget Something Awful and YTMND now. Should reboot those too. Maybe assemble them all together like Vultron or something.
With Rotten.com as the ass
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.
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.
It sucked so bad it died once and it’s still a corpo owned platform. IDK why they want to suck twice 🤷🏻♂️
In 2025, that’s like saying “Hey, we should go back to Myspace!” Myspace did a complete makeover, too. Does anybody care? No.
