Lots of venture capital money behind it. I wonder how quickly the enshitification will begin.
This is a rerun, and the fediverse is better
Digg launches its new Reddit rival to the public
Submitted 3 days ago by Veedem@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/14/digg-launches-its-new-reddit-rival-to-the-public/
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SouthFresh@lemmy.world 3 days ago
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 3 days ago
Conceptually what does this offer that the fediverse/threadiverse/lemmy/piefed doesn’t?
What then does it say about the actual value of these companies?
avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
The warm and cozy feel of a VC-funded social network.
JoMiran@lemmy.ml 3 days ago
Reddit was the Digg replacement.
Knossos@lemmy.world 3 days ago
paraphrand@lemmy.world 3 days ago
That’s because you went to Lemmy.world/digg.com 😏
JustARegularNerd@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
OP has done something weird with the comment because for me the link comes to lemmy.dbzer0.com/digg.com - both of you have LW home instances so the URL is incorrectly being parsed as an instance link?
logicbomb@lemmy.world 3 days ago
FauxLiving@lemmy.world 3 days ago
You’ll get over it
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 days ago
I keep getting a 502 bad gateway. Even Lemmy is more stable than this.
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I left Digg 15 years ago. I’m surprised it’s still around.
I’ve only heard about it since in this way, some quick announcement about the “new Digg”. And, then, nothing.
Reddit banned me for saying “see a Nazi, punch a Nazi.” There’s no way I’m going to bother with Digg, that’s the past, and I have no doubt they’d sooner than later be the same as Reddit in that regard.
mrdown@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Unfortunatly niche communities are still dead on lemmy. I may have to use digg
scytale@piefed.zip 3 days ago
It’s gonna be enshittified from the get go. Reddit grew organically then enshittifed over time. Creating a new platform backed by VC in this day and age is guaranteed to be immediately bad.
cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
Interesting, but nah. They launched it before for influencers to join, and I’m not sure how many did. I haven’t heard much about it. It sounds like it’s gonna be very corporate run. I have no idea what the political climate will be, but there’s a lot of big money behind it, so that’s not great. I got kicked off Reddit for saying child abusers should be punished more harshly, which says way more about Reddit than it does about me. I don’t trust Digg to be any better.
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 days ago
They launched it before for influencers to join, and I’m not sure how many did.
The return of MrBabyMan
adespoton@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
Shouldn’t this be in nottheonion?
EvilBit@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I see they’re making a play for that sweet “I liked this before it went public and got enshittified so I’m gonna switch to this other one that hasn’t gone public and gotten enshittified yet and hope it gets popular enough that it goes public and gets enshittified” cash.
mesamunefire@piefed.social 3 days ago
Clicked around…looks like every corpo site out there. Im not sure what this gives other than yet another place to talk about very general subjects.
I just dont see the appeal to be honest. At least with the fedi, we can chose what our joinable communities look like. This just looks like yet another “app”. With a never ending feed…
aramis87@fedia.io 3 days ago
Considering that Alexis Ohanian is involved, it looks like he wants another bite at the apple, so it'll likely go downhill pretty quickly.
treadful@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
I likely won’t be using it, but I can appreciate any Reddit alternatives.
Marshezezz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 days ago
I’ll pass
umbrella@lemmy.ml 3 days ago
🙄
RodgeGrabTheCat@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
The only Reddit alt I need is Lemmy.