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 1 month ago by aCosmicWave@lemm.ee to technology@lemmy.world
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shittydwarf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Viri4thus@feddit.org 1 month 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 1 month ago
So an even shittier reddit that failed due to extreme greed before? What’s the point?
small44@lemmy.world 1 month ago
AI for moderation worry me
ZephyrXero@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Why would I go back to Digg when we have Lemmy?
DarkCloud@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Shorter name.
RandomVideos@programming.dev 1 month ago
We should rename lemmy to lem
rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 1 month ago
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loweffortname@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
I knew I recognized this number…
dumples@midwest.social 1 month ago
I was there that day. In the before time
simonced@lemmy.one 1 month ago
They say they’ll use AI, so fuck them.
weremacaque@lemmy.world 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago
You shouldn’t expect a lot from a zombie.
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
Gods no. Why bounce between corpo sellouts?
swizzlestick@lemmy.zip 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago
they should call it dugg.com
wwb4itcgas@lemm.ee 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago
$$$
zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago
was ebaulmsworld something that was before digg?
Buffalox@lemmy.world 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago
It would be hilarious to see Digg restart as a Lemmy instance.
Ceruleum@lemmy.wtf 1 month ago
Just start a Lemmy instance and call it Digg ;-))
daddy32@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Dunno. It wasn’t really hilarious seeing trumpth social built on Mastodon.
lengau@midwest.social 1 month 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 1 month ago
If they federate then its good otherwise its just gonna be the same thing as reddit all over again
enub22@50501.chat 1 month ago
I don’t digg it.
StrawberryPigtails@lemmy.sdf.org 1 month ago
Dig long ago dug its grave. Then Reddit jumped in too. Long live Lemmy.
OpenStars@piefed.social 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago
This is why I support it.
I don’t want Reddit on Lemmy. Way too many fascists on the hellsite.
aCosmicWave@lemm.ee 1 month ago
I love Lemmy but this is exactly my take.
Bell@lemmy.world 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago
They can fuck off, I remember why I quit that site in the first place
cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
I can’t, but I think it was due to a shitty site redesign?
mp3@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Bought and revived by Alexis Ohanian? It can only turn out into a dumpster fire.
phoenixz@lemmy.ca 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago
I could like Digg if it was federated. But I bet it won’t.
db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Preach!
xnx@slrpnk.net 1 month ago
Its being recorded by Reddit cofounder Alexis ohanian. I don’t think they’ll fight lol
Telorand@reddthat.com 1 month 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 1 month ago
Yeah the chasing profit is what ultimately dooms public forums.