aCosmicWaveDigg is about to be rebooted. Thoughts?
small44AI for moderation worry me
InfiniteGlitchNever 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.
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.
db0Preach!
dougYeah the chasing profit is what ultimately dooms public forums.
XNXIts 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.
So an even shittier reddit that failed due to extreme greed before? What’s the point?
aleqLemmy has thunder?
🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 Yes. It’s an iOS client. 😏
JonasAnd Android*
User on both platforms checking in, it’s great!
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.
I’m glad Kevin Rose is back on board. However AI Moderation concerns me. Greatly.
It sucked so bad it died once and it’s still a corpo owned platform. IDK why they want to suck twice 🤷🏻♂️
FreeBooteR69I care enough to say i don’t give a shit about it.
Why would I go back to Digg when we have Lemmy?
Shorter name.
NeoI digg that comment!
Lemmy express that I really digg yours too. Had to laugh right after I reddit.
We should rename lemmy to lem
I haven’t thought about digg in 20 years. And I don’t intend to start now.
jabathekek¯\_(ツ)_/¯
BellIf their best angle is to recycle a 20 year old brand …well I can’t imagine that will go very far
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?
ladfrombrad 🇬🇧They’re probably skint and need a loan.
Problem is, they created it? Oops
lol, sign up for updates? Doomed, fucking doomed
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.
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.
ORG2001I wonder what they will do differently, this time around. This space is quite crowded already, and getting eye-balls is hard work !
Dig long ago dug its grave. Then Reddit jumped in too. Long live Lemmy.
OpenStarsSome of us already left Lemmy or never joined, for the likes of Mbin or PieFed (or eventually Sublinks?).
Long live the Fediverse.
m-p{3}Bought and revived by Alexis Ohanian? It can only turn out into a dumpster fire.
🇦🇺𝕄𝕦𝕟𝕥𝕖𝕕𝕔𝕣𝕠𝕔𝕠𝕕𝕚𝕝𝕖If they federate then its good otherwise its just gonna be the same thing as reddit all over again
SwizzleStickWith any luck, they’ll take some of the users bailing out of Reddit on the nostalgia factor, become mediocre, and die. Again.
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…?
Gods no. Why bounce between corpo sellouts?
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.
They can fuck off, I remember why I quit that site in the first place
I can’t, but I think it was due to a shitty site redesign?
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.
It absolutely will be. It’s what’s happening to twitter right now. Loads and loads of bots/ai posting “content.”
Any alternative is not a win. Fediverse only moving forward.
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
You shouldn’t expect a lot from a zombie.
Numinous_YlemThe 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.
Oh neat! I used to use Fark, too. I just checked and it’s still around, just looks a bit dead compared to how I remember it from back in the day.
I started using it in the late 90’s or early 2000’s, but I stopped sometime in that date range you mentioned. For me, it was the fact that I got multiple back to temporary suspensions (with no warnings). It was like I couldn’t do anything right and to some extent, it felt targeted and personal.
I don’t even remember them all, but two of the suspensions stick out to me. I got banned for posting the picture of the officially unofficial fark squirrel (i.e. Big Balls). Up until that time, it was basically a Fark meme posted openly and frequently by large numbers of users. I guess advertisers didn’t like it and I didn’t get the memo. Another suspension came when I responded to a homophobic bigot who was arguing against legalizing gay marriage in the USA by telling him “if you believe that, you are an idiot”. Apparently that’s name calling, but using cocksucker as a pejorative against another man was still considered A-Okay.
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loweffortnameI knew I recognized this number…
I was there that day. In the before time
MimicJarReally 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?