Oh look, another centralized social media platform that will eventually get enshittified
Here's your first look at the rebooted Digg | TechCrunch
Submitted 1 month ago by MolecularCactus1324@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/18/heres-your-first-look-at-the-rebooted-digg/
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besselj@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Zachariah@lemmy.world 1 month ago
not quite sure it’s not starting out enshittified
dil@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
yeah it doesnt look bad at all, thatll prob come later, the ai in use right now are a nonissue imo
scarabic@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
If it stars out enshittified then you never had anything to enshittify, just plain shit.
zecg@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
This one is different, it starts enshittified and enshittifies further
DirkMcCallahan@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I’m looking forward to the “Here’s your first look at the rebooted Reddit” articles in 7 years.
Sev@fed.nullterra.org 5 weeks ago
Why the fuck would I want my link aggregator to have a leaderboard?
People competing for fake internet points is already driving some of the worst patterns we're seeing on the social web. Imagine putting that shit front and center.
PresidentCamacho@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
Because those shitty patterns make the platform valuable. It’s about creating investor value, end user be damned.
Jimmycakes@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Well you see there’s gonna be a digg store where all your diggs can get you a virtual hat for your diggdug Ai virtual too man guy.
mctoasterson@reddthat.com 1 month ago
Maybe if they allow API access for alternative frontends that eliminate ads and block telemetry. Otherwise, not interested.
VirgilMastercard@reddthat.com 1 month ago
Worthless crap. Thank fuck we’re on a platform free of centralised ownership.
echodot@feddit.uk 5 weeks ago
The hero no one wanted, or needed
But other than that. Cool
elbarto777@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Cool how?
cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
let me guess it's ai slop
floo@retrolemmy.com 1 month ago
No thanks
db2@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Don’t care.
bieren@lemmy.zip 5 weeks ago
Is anyone else amazed that digg just won’t die? How many other popular sites have come and gone, and yet, digg is always lurking in the shadows.
MolecularCactus1324@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Digg has been basically dead for 15 years.
TeddE@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
My mom still maintains her Angelfire site. MySpace still exists. There are historical cities that are ghost towns of what they once were - yet the cities exist. Once you reach a particular space of cultural ubiquity, it gets hard to disappear.
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
concepts that have been whipped up in Photoshop aren’t “first looks”
ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.com 5 weeks ago
The article says an iOS app was released to testers.
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
but that’s not my first look as the title states.
LWD@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Oh no…
Okay, Digg has my attention again.
And they lost me again.
natecox@programming.dev 1 month ago
That was a wild ride.
echodot@feddit.uk 5 weeks ago
The internet has way too many AI bots, let’s add some more
- Digg logic
Pirate@feddit.org 5 weeks ago
AI. BOTS. MILLENIAL INFANTILE DESIGN. CORPORATE SPEAK.
Gee, I wonder why people aren’t tripping over themselves to join this.
doctortofu@reddthat.com 1 month ago
Because if there’s anything a link aggregator needs, it’s MORE reasons for people to not read linked articles! Will they also add AI responses? That way users wouldn’t need to bother with reading OR writing!
dil@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Idk, its less subjective than the top comment summaries on reddit from users Image
LWD@lemm.ee 1 month ago
I see no reason to engage with, or trust anything created by, a bullshit generator. If Digg claims to “care” about the humans, then making the top comment into a brick wall (which has zero accountability) is a funny way of showing it.
But then again, I’m sure their privacy policy also says they care about your privacy.
SaltSong@startrek.website 1 month ago
Is there some reason we want brands to join the conversation?
dil@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Not like itll prevent ppl from clicking on articles that alrady werent
Bosht@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
All valid points, and he base truth around all this is there’s no way this is the original Digg anyway. Someone bought the name rights and have Diggs’ corpse strung up with a painted on smile.
Soapbox@lemmy.zip 5 weeks ago
I’m pretty sure I read the other day that it’s the original founders of Digg (Kevin Rose) who bought back the corpse and are leading this with VC funding.
techcrunch.com/…/kevin-rose-and-alexis-ohanian-ac…
ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 5 weeks ago
What’s wrong with AI summaries? AI has it’s uses. A long as it’s just adding some metadata I don’t see nothing wrong with it.
For me the big questions is what are they going to do to stop bots, spam and internet points farming. So far they didn’t reveal any plans.
echodot@feddit.uk 5 weeks ago
It never stops there though, they never just write their summary and leave it alone they always have to have the AI do more and more until it eventually takes over the entire platform.
atrielienz@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
The thing that’s mostly wrong with AI summaries is that people don’t click through to the page the summary summarizes. So those sites don’t get ad revenue. That’s ad revenue is the backbone of the internet for a lot of sites. If there’s no site posting the information then the AI has nothing to summarize and provide an overview of. The pivot to AI LLM’s is likely to kill the companies who aggregate links, and they’re pushing for it hoping to make it profitable in the long term because they’ve been actively enshittifying ad aggregation via search for the purposes of big number must go up (you know, for the shareholders). It’s defeatist to the current business model of most of the internet. And the shareholders do not care so long as they get their money.
tonytins@pawb.social 1 month ago
Because that worked soo well for Apple.
MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
And they realized it and fixed their mistake… hopefully…
chunes@lemmy.world 1 month ago
It must be tiring to be this narrow-minded.