Comment on Digg’s open beta shuts down after just two months, blaming AI bot spam

• Skavau@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It was overall, less active than the Fediverse.

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  • 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.

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    • rimu@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Maybe they’ll relaunch as a piefed instance, lol

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      • cabbage@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I was thinking the same thing when I read this:

        A small but determined team is stepping up to rebuild with a completely reimagined angle of attack. Positioning Digg as simply an alternative to incumbents wasn’t imaginative enough. That’s a race we were never going to win. What comes next needs to be genuinely different.

        Small team, completely reimagined, not simply an alternative, genuinely different… They are describing a federated instance.

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• 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.

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  • 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?

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    • 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

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      • cabbage@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Oooh, neat community! Joined!

        I guess that’s one benefit of a smaller site - if you put down the effort in it, it stands out more.

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    • 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.

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    • 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.

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