Submitted 1 year ago by aCosmicWave@lemm.ee to technology@lemmy.world
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.
No real info, so I am not hopeful and cynical.
My guess the new superpower is AI stuff or a shop to give them money for the memes.
I don’t trust it.
In 2025, that’s like saying “Hey, we should go back to Myspace!” Myspace did a complete makeover, too. Does anybody care? No.
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.
Thoughts? Frankly, none.
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!
was ebaulmsworld something that was before digg?
I’m maxed out on social media. Lemmy is my main one. Then, there’s Facebook so my old relatives can see baby pics. I’d rather not, but they’re old and set in their ways. I have Discord strictly as a chat platform with my brother and a couple college buddies for gaming. I have LinkedIn for work, and never look at it. And finally, I watch YouTube (Revanced). That’s it. There’s no room for Digg anymore.
Leave Facebook. Nobody will notice. If anyone does notice, text them the pics.
I started getting incredible sales job offers that im not qualified for in my email recently. It turns out at some point 7 years ago I updated it to say I sold cars and never changed it. Thus these companies think I have years slinging cars when IRL it was a year. Im not salesperson with a massive capacity to take abuse so those gigs arent for me.
I wouldnt consider them all social media. Discord is ass, its such an odd platform it never eoccured to me that people use it for in real life friends. Youtube is basically low budget netflix for me, no need to socialise on it - probably best to avoid it tbh.
any social media that wants to keep the toxic folks out needs to keep their API private.
It would be hilarious to see Digg restart as a Lemmy instance.
Dunno. It wasn’t really hilarious seeing trumpth social built on Mastodon.
Not really the same thing though, since Trump’s thingy wasn’t one of the things that popularised that type of site.
Just start a Lemmy instance and call it Digg ;-))
Reddit’s seeing membership outflows resulting from their more draconian policies. Reddit boss restarts a competitor platform so that he can try and recapture users by owning his own competition, while trying to pretend like there’s no conflict.
idk. Seems pretty suspect to me. Lemmy seems ‘ok’ for news aggregation, and it has a more community / local vibe to it. For example, I can have more confidence that the feeds I see on Lemmy.ca are more controlled / accountable to Canadians, rather than the heavily Americanized subs that exist in Reddit. And I can pick and choose which other subs to see, with better understanding of the likely biases that I’ll encounter. This sort of end user transparency is really refreshing, especially given the burbling propaganda war being waged by the Americans at present against Canada.
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.
I don’t have high hopes. Kevin and Alexis had an opportunity to succeed with Digg and Reddit already. The enshittification of Digg was complete, there’s no going back. And Reddit, well, it’s Reddit.
We need something new and innovative, and I don’t see resurrecting a dead horse as adding any value to the current ecosystem of social and news apps.
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.
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
I love Lemmy but this is exactly my take.
This is why I support it.
I don’t want Reddit on Lemmy. Way too many fascists on the hellsite.
There’s not much to think about for me.
I don’t digg it.
they should call it dugg.com
If there’s no MrBabyMan, why bother?
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.
I was there that day. In the before time
I knew I recognized this number…
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.
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.
You shouldn’t expect a lot from a zombie.
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
Any alternative is not a win. Fediverse only moving forward.
They say they’ll use AI, so fuck them.
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.
It absolutely will be. It’s what’s happening to twitter right now. Loads and loads of bots/ai posting “content.”
They can fuck off, I remember why I quit that site in the first place
I can’t, but I think it was due to a shitty site redesign?
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.
UpperBroccoli@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
What’s next, the most triumphant return of Geocities, replete with blinking text, construction signs and visitor counter?
Feyd@programming.dev 1 year ago
neocities.org