Comment on Digg launches its new Reddit rival to the public

• ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Being owned by venture capitalists is pretty much an assurance that they’ll turn it to shit as much as they can get away with. The entire reason people abandoned digg for reddit in the first place was because it was selling out to ad space and shill accounts and manipulation. The venture capitalists will want big returns on their investments.

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• RodgeGrabTheCat@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Competition is good. Also the less data Reddit has, the slower A.I. models can be trained.

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  • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    reddit is partially being propped up by google.

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• scarabic@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That’s a fair point. Reddit has been openly hostile to its own users these past several years. It might help moderate that to have another alternative on the table, even if it too is a soulless corporate enterprise.

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  • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    it got worst within the last year. they ban new users and old inactive accounts extremely fast. of course you can say its due to bots using same methods, this hasnt stopped bots in any case at all. its just targetting lowest hanging fruits.

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• Perspectivist@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This is quite toxic attitude. You should focus on what’s good for you - not what’s bad for someone else.

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  • naught101@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Eh, what’s bad for capitalists is what’s good for the rest of us

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  • Scrollone@feddit.it ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I don’t agree. We’re not talking about a person or a charity. We’re talking about a VC-backed company. They can fuck off and die, and it’s not toxic – it’s just common sense.

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    • hector@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      But two corporate entities competing are better than one secure in it’s market share.

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      • mpramann@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Only marginally… maybe. Duopolies are still really shitty for consumers and that’s the best outcome to this. Significantly better would be if more people would realise what made internet amazing in the beginning and that logical consequences from that are that public spaces in the internet where the content comes from the people should be owned by the people.

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  • Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    But competition IS good for me.

    If people start migrating to better experience and better communities, they’re going to have to step up to stop the bleeding.

    Reddit can get away with making terrible user experiences and killing 3rd party solutions because no alternative has lured enough of their base away.

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  • Lucelu2@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Monopolies are bad for everyone except their CEO and stockholders.

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