Not noticing it doesn’t mean it’s not there.
Comment on Digg’s open beta shuts down after just two months, blaming AI bot spam
kinkles@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
I think I had blocked maybe one or two of the default communities very early on, and after that I hadn’t noticed any spam. I used the app at least once a day since the open beta started. Whatever they were doing to combat the bots appeared to be working. It’s a huge shame they thought otherwise and shut down.
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
kinkles@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Isn’t that the best we can ask for nowadays though?
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Don’t lower your bar.
kinkles@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
I didn’t notice the spam and I was quite happy using the new Digg, so I don’t exactly know what you think I should have been doing differently.
lazycouchpotato@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Didn’t spend a lot of time there but my experience was similar. Didn’t notice any spam, but activity was sparse.
cabbage@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
How was it? Did it feel lively?
I just checked the front page a couple of times out of curiosity, but I never bothered really checking it out too much. I was always surprised how dead it looked from the outside, but that might have been the wrong impression.
Skavau@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
It was overall, less active than the Fediverse.
cabbage@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
That’s interesting and I missed that post, thanks!
It can be easy to lose track of how successful the fediverse already is, as the number of users will remain negligible compared to mainstream platforms for a really long time and possibly forever. Seeing how it easily outperforms a major player like Digg trying to re-establish themselves puts things into perspective.
rimu@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Maybe they’ll relaunch as a piefed instance, lol
kinkles@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
It was active enough that there was new content every day. Checking multiple times a day I’d see the same stuff but I saw that as a positive that kept me from wasting too much time.
cabbage@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Did it have niche communities that had successfully moved over, but that were not featured on the front page?
mrdown@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
My community is a niche one Albumartworksheaven. It took me a month to have more followers on digg than here in 6 months. My community was featured twice
ApollosArrow@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I don’t think many of the niche communities really had time to thrive, since people were trying to build up a lot of the main ones. I think some were starting to just get traction, which could be a reason why they chose now, stopping before it really got away from them.
kinkles@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
It had some, yeah. I never really got a chance to dig into them very much but I was a member of the /spongebob community and it had some sincere activity from people who wanted to grow it into something fun and engaging.