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.
Digg is about to be rebooted. Thoughts?
Submitted 4 weeks ago by aCosmicWave@lemm.ee to technology@lemmy.world
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shittydwarf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
Viri4thus@feddit.org 4 weeks ago
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.
cronenthal@discuss.tchncs.de 4 weeks ago
So an even shittier reddit that failed due to extreme greed before? What’s the point?
small44@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
AI for moderation worry me
ZephyrXero@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Why would I go back to Digg when we have Lemmy?
DarkCloud@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Shorter name.
RandomVideos@programming.dev 4 weeks ago
We should rename lemmy to lem
rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
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loweffortname@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 weeks ago
I knew I recognized this number…
dumples@midwest.social 4 weeks ago
I was there that day. In the before time
simonced@lemmy.one 4 weeks ago
They say they’ll use AI, so fuck them.
weremacaque@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
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.
Zeron@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
It absolutely will be. It’s what’s happening to twitter right now. Loads and loads of bots/ai posting “content.”
Numinous_Ylem@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
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.
GooberEar@lemmy.wtf 4 weeks ago
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.
zooper@lemmy.studio 4 weeks ago
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.
muhyb@programming.dev 4 weeks ago
You shouldn’t expect a lot from a zombie.
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 4 weeks ago
Gods no. Why bounce between corpo sellouts?
swizzlestick@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
With any luck, they’ll take some of the users bailing out of Reddit on the nostalgia factor, become mediocre, and die. Again.
MimicJar@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Really 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.
giacomo@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
they should call it dugg.com
wwb4itcgas@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
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.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 4 weeks ago
It sucked so bad it died once and it’s still a corpo owned platform. IDK why they want to suck twice 🤷🏻♂️
Ghyste@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
$$$
zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
In 2025, that’s like saying “Hey, we should go back to Myspace!” Myspace did a complete makeover, too. Does anybody care? No.
nthavoc@lemmy.today 4 weeks ago
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!
reksas@sopuli.xyz 4 weeks ago
was ebaulmsworld something that was before digg?
Buffalox@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
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.dantheclamman@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
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.
lengau@midwest.social 4 weeks ago
It would be hilarious to see Digg restart as a Lemmy instance.
Ceruleum@lemmy.wtf 4 weeks ago
Just start a Lemmy instance and call it Digg ;-))
daddy32@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Dunno. It wasn’t really hilarious seeing trumpth social built on Mastodon.
lengau@midwest.social 4 weeks ago
Not really the same thing though, since Trump’s thingy wasn’t one of the things that popularised that type of site.
muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
If they federate then its good otherwise its just gonna be the same thing as reddit all over again
enub22@50501.chat 4 weeks ago
I don’t digg it.
StrawberryPigtails@lemmy.sdf.org 4 weeks ago
Dig long ago dug its grave. Then Reddit jumped in too. Long live Lemmy.
OpenStars@piefed.social 4 weeks ago
Some of us already left Lemmy or never joined, for the likes of Mbin or PieFed (or eventually Sublinks?).
Long live the Fediverse.
AnonomousWolf@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
If they put a lot of focused on having a good UX and some marketing I could see it outgrow Lemmy the same way Bluesky outgrew Mastodon
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 4 weeks ago
This is why I support it.
I don’t want Reddit on Lemmy. Way too many fascists on the hellsite.
aCosmicWave@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
I love Lemmy but this is exactly my take.
Bell@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
If their best angle is to recycle a 20 year old brand …well I can’t imagine that will go very far
pHr34kY@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I still remember the mass migration to reddit. Digg had an old website that didn’t scale to their userbase. They deployed a new site, and everyone hated the design. They couldn’t continue on the old website because it would crash and burn.
The important part is that Kevin, Alex and all of Digg were quite open and honest about the situation. At no point were they being jerks. They just couldn’t keep manage the technical hurdles.
despicable@lemmy.today 4 weeks ago
They can fuck off, I remember why I quit that site in the first place
cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
I can’t, but I think it was due to a shitty site redesign?
mp3@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
Bought and revived by Alexis Ohanian? It can only turn out into a dumpster fire.
phoenixz@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
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
Telorand@reddthat.com 4 weeks ago
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.
harsh3466@lemmy.ml 4 weeks ago
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?
Scrollone@feddit.it 4 weeks ago
I could like Digg if it was federated. But I bet it won’t.
db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
Preach!
xnx@slrpnk.net 4 weeks ago
Its being recorded by Reddit cofounder Alexis ohanian. I don’t think they’ll fight lol
Telorand@reddthat.com 4 weeks ago
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.
doug@lemmy.today 4 weeks ago
Yeah the chasing profit is what ultimately dooms public forums.