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• RodgeGrabTheCat@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The only Reddit alt I need is Lemmy.

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  • Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Anything that takes users away from Reddit, and forces Reddit to compete, is a plus for me.

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    • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Being owned by venture capitalists is pretty much an assurance that they’ll turn it to shit as much as they can get away with. The entire reason people abandoned digg for reddit in the first place was because it was selling out to ad space and shill accounts and manipulation. The venture capitalists will want big returns on their investments.

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    • RodgeGrabTheCat@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Competition is good. Also the less data Reddit has, the slower A.I. models can be trained.

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    • scarabic@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      That’s a fair point. Reddit has been openly hostile to its own users these past several years. It might help moderate that to have another alternative on the table, even if it too is a soulless corporate enterprise.

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    • Perspectivist@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      This is quite toxic attitude. You should focus on what’s good for you - not what’s bad for someone else.

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  • bytesonbike@discuss.online ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Silly question. Is Reddit still banning comments that say Lemmy?

    I don’t have an account.

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    • ILoveUnions@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Dunny. I’ve mentioned it a few times. I don’t think they’re still removing them but I bet they are still suppressing them

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    • hector@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Idk, but now that you mention iy, I got a 2nd violation, for threatening violence that did not do so or even come close, to the point I think it was ad hoc in bad faith, to say for other reasons. I did mention lemmy not long before.

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    • arrow74@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      If they are advertising on Digg may work.

      I’d like to see this place just a bit better

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    • kazerniel@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I have a link to my Lemmy profile on my Reddit profile and not even shadowbanned 🤷

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  • termaxima@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Idk, I think there are also legitimate arguments for piefed !

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    • Zen_Shinobi@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      What’s piefed? I looked at it and mostly saw lemmy instances.

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    • mjr@infosec.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Such as?

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    • RodgeGrabTheCat@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Haven’t tried piefed so I can’t say.

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    • thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Doesn’t piefed have that controversial hardcoded blocklist? I’ve heard that meme communities and similar are filtered out using hardcoded keywords matched aganst community name.

      Why hardcode this??? Imposing your preferences on everyone seems like a bad idea.

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    • thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Piefed and Lemmy are basically the same thing on different websites

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  • nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I could go for a text only version of this

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    • FauxPseudo@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      That’s what Usenet was.

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    • RodgeGrabTheCat@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      That would be nice. It can probably be done by blocking images at the browser level. Wouldn’t be the same as a text only site though.

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  • YeahIgotskills2@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’m starting to agree. Was a bit quiet and weirdly obsessed with Linux when I first signed up, but now I really like it. I’ve decided to stay.

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    • RodgeGrabTheCat@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I felt this place was a ghost town when I first started - maybe 10 posts a day. Now, there is plenty to read. Partly due to me finding more communities and overall more people here.

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  • jimmy90@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    lemmy certainly scratches the doomer/black pill/commie itch in everyone

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• SouthFresh@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This is a rerun, and the fediverse is better

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  • W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Image

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    • bonenode@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The crossover I didn’t know I need

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• JoMiran@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Reddit was the Digg replacement.

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  • ALoafOfBread@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    oh how the turn tables

    EDIT: Thanks for the gold, kind stranger!

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    • bonenode@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      EDIT: Thanks for the gold, kind stranger!

      shudder

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  • merc@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Reddit existed long before Digg died, and was so much better before the Digg refugees streamed in.

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• stormio@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Plus, Rose suggests Digg could use signals acquired from mobile devices to help verify members — for instance, the app could identify when Digg users attended a meetup in the same location.

  Maybe I’m being paranoid, but this does not sound like a good thing for privacy.

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  • Trilogy3452@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    “Hi! We’ve just noticed there are 2 other members of d/footfettish bext tp you, go say hi!”

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    • douglasg14b@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Low key win for kink communities.

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  • scarabic@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You are absolutely right about that. Passively detecting your location? Fuck that. We are getting into an era where bots are overwhelming and user verification is a valid topic to discuss. I think additional device permissions can be one element in that discussion. But this idea he popped off the dome is a miserable example of such.

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• FinishingDutch@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Yeah… no. None of that sojnds appealing.

  ‘Curbing toxicity with AI’ means a bot is going to ban you because it doesn’t sarcasm.

  And ‘new tech to verify your identity’ sounds like a privacy violation at best.

  ‘Verifying that you own a product before they let you post in its community’ is a complete lack of understanding of how people use places like this.

  Digg can fuck right off.

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  • NateNate60@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    While AI obviously is not perfect and is flawed in many ways, having AI sift through the torrent of comments and then flag problematic submissions for human review is likely going to be extremely effective with minimal false positives. Though I do say this as a person whose Reddit account is currently banned for 3 days for “inciting violence” because of a knife-based joke.

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    • BlackDragon@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I got banned from reddit last week for “threatening violence” basically because my comment contained the word “die.” It wasn’t a verb.

      Reddit is super aggressive with this shit now. If you say “Don’t drink bleach, that would kill you.” Their AI bullshit just sees “kill you” and bans you for threats.

      Site is fucking useless, don’t even bother at this point. It’s mostly robots talking to other robots at this point anyway.

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    • pinesolcario@lemy.lol ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Ah I see someone else suffering the same shit as myself. Inciting violence for comparatives is what happened to me. No, neither side should celebrate violence. Human life is invaluable.

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    • Holytimes@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Ai flagging for human review is likely the best option.

      The problem is that the humans reviewing things are biased, assholes with no sense of humor.

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    • Lucelu2@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I have been permanently banned from Reddit for wishing for a natural disease process to occur in a certain individual.

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    • Scotty_Trees@lemmy.world [bot] ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      “I run faster with a knife!!”

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  • pool_spray_098@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yeah, the verifying that you own a product thing is so dumb.

    “Hey <insert product> community. I’m thinking about purchasing <insert product>, but I wanted to know if it can do X, Y, and Z.”

    “your post has been deleted because you have not proven that you own <insert product>.”

    Wow, it’s like they made Reddit even worse.

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    • brbposting@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      “Hi I wasn’t paid six dollars on Fiverr to post here” (does increase costs obviously but marginally for high-margin/volume products)

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  • dil@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Your comment would be autoremoved for the last line lol

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• CryptoKitten@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  We left Digg for Reddit about 20 years ago because of enshitification, the same way we left Reddit for the Fediverse recently, there is no way I am going back to Digg!

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  • LiamMayfair@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    No but this time will be different I’m sure!! I’m sure they’ve learned their lessons from their past mistakes. Trust me on this… I’m a dolphin

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    • Evil_Incarnate@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Mistakes may happen, but I’m sure they won’t do any evil shit on porpoise.

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  • stoly@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I specifically remember the exodus from DIGG as the start of reddit sucking.

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    • BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      When was that? Based on life events I’ve reconstructed this timeline of my hangout sites

      • late 1990s to mid 2000s was slahdot
      • around 2006ish digg came into my life and was great for a some years. At least for memes and generic dopamining on funny pictures. I think I hung around until about 2014 or so, while spicing it up with cracked.com
      • 2014ish 9GAG started having more of my type of content. After a few years 9GAG became just automated reposts of r/funny, and talking about that got you censored. Kinda like what reddit is doing now.
      • 2017ish I switched to reddit, when 9GAG just became too embarrassingly bad.
      • july 21st 2023 I started trying to figure out lemmy. BTW u/spez is a pedophile piss baby.

      Maybe I was just trailing behind you others. Was I the one to ruin your experience? Why would you accuse me of that you insensitive clod? Anyway, in that case I’ll go eat crayons in the corner and shitpost on .ml

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    • Giloron@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Sorry

      -A Slashdot to Digg to Lemmy refugee

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  • FryAndBender@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Same here 😂

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  • Bullerfar@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    What, Digg was before Reddit? Thought Reddit was the OG forum of the global internet.

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    • roserose56@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Before Reddit and everything was forum sites. I use many of them today.

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    • JcbAzPx@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Digg based the voting off of a simplified version of Slashdot’s. Except they let everyone vote. Reddit then took that concept and added user generated categories and user moderating.

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• meejle@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I really wanted to like it, but it’s already a right-wing cesspit. 🤷‍♂️ Maaaaaybe it’ll improve, now that it’s public, but I don’t have high hopes.

  I know this place is just the opposite kind of echo chamber, but when the other option is being beaten over the head with transphobia and Maga shit, ehh, I’ll take it.

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  • Triumph@fedia.io ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Reality has a liberal bias.

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• supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?

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  • avidamoeba@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The warm and cozy feel of a VC-funded social network.

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  • can@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Conceptually what does this offer that the fediverse/threadiverse/lemmy/piefed doesn’t?

    To us? Nothing. To others? A single place to browse and sign up.

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  • bonn2@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    All the AI features are a real plus /s

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  • RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Well, actual users and niche communities that get more than 3 responses max might be one thing it offers.

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• kyonshi@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  You mean the digg everyone ditched for reddit when they went insane? That digg? I think some people don’t even realize that digg used to be way more popular than that very basic reddit thingy nobody used.

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  • UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Digg was started before reddit and I think reddit took the upvote idea and went with it. When digg switch to the new layout and then to the news only crap everyone went to reddit like I hope everyone will to the fedeverse. I use to watch the Screensavers and was there when Kevin Rose came on.

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  • jungle@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    No, they built a completely new product.

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• Boiglenoight@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Someone will have to let me know because I’m not wasting my time there. I’m going to keep wasting my time here. It’s a fantastic waste of time

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  • YetAnotherNerd@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    There are hundreds of us. Maybe thousands!

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• 1984@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  They are going to use Ai to moderate, lol… That will be fun to watch.

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  • super_user_do@feddit.it ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    They already do on Reddit… 

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  • Katana314@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’m a little half and half on it. A lot of people like myself are fed up with the obsessive way AI is pushed into everything, but I can see it having uses.

    For instance, sifting through 20,000 “This user didn’t accept my argument evidence” reports to find some that have merit; that can be worthwhile, even if all it does is alert a human to take a look and make a full judgment. Besides, the bar for quality moderators on sites like Reddit is low.

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  • reksas@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    i wonder if it could be tricked into banning wrong people

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• EtAl@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I dug Digg once upon a time. When they tried to undermine the power users, I found Reddit. Then Reddit enshittified. Now I got Lemmy. It’s where I want to be. No company behind it, milking the users.

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  • Zink@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yep, I’m ready to read the news that this platform surpassed the user base of Lemmy on the first day and never looked back. And I am ready to not be bothered by it.

    Good on them for any pain they inflict on reddit. And I do hope the fediverse takes over the global media landscape because that is better for humanity than corpo-governmental gatekeepers. But if Lemmy’s user base just hangs around in the tens of thousands rather than the tens of millions, I am content.

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  • Iamaquantummechanic@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Pre-digg immigration OG reddit user here. The enshittification of reddit started when digg users joined en masse and flooded the site with advice animal memes and f7u13 macros.

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• phoenixz@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Ooohhh a venture capitalist social media platform! I wonder how and in how many overly creative and putrid ways that site will try and fuck me over, inside and out.

  Yeah, hells no

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• _Nico198X_@europe.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I will never return to walled garden internet. You burned all your good will by being greedy and horrible.

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• Kintarian@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  We left Digg for Reddit, then they enshitified Reddit so we went to the fediverse and now they want to bring Digg back. The turd just circles the toilet bowl endlessly.

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• hector@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Fuck all of these silicon valley parasites.

  Even before they maximize revenue and as a result enshitify the site, the government and monied interests will have or be able to get their hooks in them, to influence moderation, visibility, allowing influence ops now going nuclear with government connected ones utilizing the cutting edge chat bots, along with agents and bots. Some half of all interactions are fake as such now they think.

  We need to make federated social media a thing. Like this, but better instances making it more usable to get tje critical mass of users.

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• myfunnyaccountname@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This is like the 3rd time digg is trying to exist.

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• Marthirial@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Again? This is like the 8th time they have announced this in the last 10 years.

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• noumenon@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Fediverse ftw

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• Washedupcynic@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Look at that, Digg-ing up the corpse of a horse just to beat it more.

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• ClassyHatter@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I wonder how quickly the enshitification will begin.

  Lots of venture capital money behind it.

  It already began.

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• SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I was interested for like 15-20 seconds until I realized I have this place now and I actually don’t give an exploding flying fuck

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• lechekaflan@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Meh, it’s still corpo space.

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• E_coli42@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  What’s the point of this when Fediverse is technologically superior?

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• Lor@leminal.space ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It already sucks, I did the beta and it started to suck then. Now I cannot login because their login method sucks. I am done. I am happy on Lemmy.

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• dil@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It started out enshittified, ai automod will take down your posts/comments for anything inappropriate like saying shit or fuck. No what the fucks on digg. They may have fixed it temporarily since ppl were complaining.

  Idk, the moment they swapped the shovel and tombstone for basic triangle upvote/downvotes I knew it was going to be corporate slop for the general public.

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• 9point6@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Image

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• Triumph@fedia.io ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Everyone should go post the HD DVD key.

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• Blackmist@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Wow, I can’t wait to never use that and forget all about it.

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• MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.

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