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• EvilBit@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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  • Brewchin@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yes, the “yet” is doing all the work here. Along with a heft dose of “Digg was great” for those of its who used it and, well, the inevitable enshittification that all PE-led startups follow. And Rose has proven he’s no exception.

    A bit like Bluesky, where the USP is “just like Xitter, but without Elmo at the helm”. The days are numbered, etc.

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• magnetosphere@fedia.io ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I got about a quarter way through the article before realizing that I don’t care in the slightest.

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• rumba@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Sooo, Digg started to monetize, Manipulate the feeds for money, allowing Reddit to swoop in and steal their lunch. Doubled down as the platform emptied, now 15 years later, they say Trust me, Bro?

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• mrmaplebar@fedia.io ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This has all the markings of more VC AI garbage. Hopefully it does pull some users away from Reddit just to break up the centralization a little bit more, but overall I don't see what the appeal is supposed to be.

  I'll stick with the fediverse.

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• DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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  • Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It wasn’t. It became something else, now they’re re-pivoting it back, but with more AI trash.

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• matthewm05@ttrpg.network ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Is it federated?

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• mesamunefire@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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…

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  • itsathursday@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    All these sites look like children’s toys

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• scytale@piefed.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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• moakley@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Figured I’d sign up to preserve my username just in case, but it doesn’t work without an app. Oh well.

  These sites are supposed to be gateways to the internet. Why the fuck would you put that in any app other than a browser?

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  • desertdruid@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    i’m talking out of my ass right now but I assume they will get better revenue using an app to show ads and collect info

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  • EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    it doesn’t work without an app.

    You can’t use it in a browser? Does that mean that you can’t use it on a PC?

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    • samus12345@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I just made an account to see and it seems to be working on a desktop for me.

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    • moakley@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Sorry, I meant mobile browser. I don’t use a PC.

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  • frostysauce@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The article said the public beta opens on Wednesday.

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  • forkDestroyer@infosec.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You can sign up for an account now on browser. You can only log in with an email. They send you a confirmation code to your email that you have to put in, in order to log in. Once you do this, you can create your username (which is tied to an email). This is probably to stop people from using throwaway accounts to log in.

    So far I like Lemmy more but I’ll scope it out to see what happens next.

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    • moakley@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I tried switching to desktop mode on my phone and it switched back to mobile during the last step and gave me a 404 error. I don’t use a PC.

      So oh well.

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• Knossos@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Digg.com didn’t load for me, good start 😅

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  • paraphrand@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That’s because you went to Lemmy.world/digg.com 😏

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    • JustARegularNerd@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?

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  • logicbomb@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Try this link: digg.com

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    • FauxLiving@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      You’ll get over it

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  • SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I keep getting a 502 bad gateway. Even Lemmy is more stable than this.

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• MehBlah@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Digg dug its own grave.

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  • mycodesucks@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Image

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    • MehBlah@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I can hear this image.

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    • chunes@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Ahh that brings back memories. First video game I ever played. :)

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• robocall@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I highly doubt anyone on the fediverse will migrate from here to there. Perhaps Digg wants Redditors to switch over to them? I don’t really understand who this is for.

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• Treczoks@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Sounds like an unholy wedding of AI and privacy nightmare to me.

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• A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Digg is coming back?

  Whats next?

  Fark?

  Rotten.com?

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  • SuiXi3D@fedia.io ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Fark never went away. I still browse daily.

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    • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      it still exists? wow.

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    • kyonshi@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yeah, me too. Never made an account, but the headlines still give me a chuckle.

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  • Duamerthrax@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    friendster.com

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  • GreenKnight23@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    rotten will make a comeback if any of those “save the children” bills get passed.

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• 58008@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I was gonna give it a chance back when they were letting people reserve their usernames. When the site first went live (in beta, I guess?) they wanted me to pay them money to gain access. Enshittification is baked into the platform.

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• Quazatron@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Bring back Geocities next.

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  • TheImpressiveX@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    neocities.org

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  • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    geocities and angelfire.

    god i miss the early internet.

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• mrdown@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Unfortunatly niche communities are still dead on lemmy. I may have to use digg

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  • mrmaplebar@fedia.io ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Where they are... even more dead?

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    • mrdown@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      You expect niche communities to be lively in one day on digg? The reddit outrage is 2 years old still lemmy lack lively niche country

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  • Lfrith@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Do you really have to? I think these days its best to not create a new account for corporate run social media sites, and instead just lurk instead of being an active contributor. Ideally using a front end if available.

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• super_user_do@feddit.it ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I don’t know man, but Lemmy and the Fediverse seems to be a more mature ecosystem than that. Digg just looks like a stripped-down version of Reddit with no specific feature 

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  • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    it was the OG reddit, before reddit took over.

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    • TheGuyTM3@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      internet does remembers

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• Harvey656@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  However, the rise of AI has presented an opportunity to rebuild Digg, Rose and Ohanian believe, leading them to acquire Digg last March through a leveraged buyout by True Ventures, Ohanian’s firm Seven Seven Six, Rose and Ohanian themselves, and the venture firm S32. The company has not disclosed its funding.

  May as well get the shovel already.

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  • zarkanian@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    What they really need to do is put it on a blockchain.

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    • Harvey656@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      NFTs, bitcoin, trumpcoin or bust.

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• chunes@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  We’re being asked to trust the same guy who somehow managed to enshittify his site even faster than reddit… lol

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• NihilsineNefas@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Digg still exists?!

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  • MehBlah@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The eternal half life of suckage.

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• Zen_Shinobi@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Me checking it out: types d i g g . c o m enter

  Digg: Something went wrong! Show errror

  Me: clicks show error box nothing

  Welp so much for that

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• rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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  • steeznson@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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    • rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      我能吞下玻璃而不伤身体。

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• sudoer777@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  If I ever find myself there I’ll just digg my way back to Lemmy

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• realitista@lemmus.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The company that enshittified itself to the point where all it’s users left is back and already well down the enshittification road? Okay. I guess I know that now.

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• WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It’s Digg, don’t bother with them.

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• adespoton@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Shouldn’t this be in nottheonion?

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• cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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  • SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    They launched it before for influencers to join, and I’m not sure how many did.

    The return of MrBabyMan

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• Cyberflunk@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I watched Kevin and company rebuild this through their pre-platform

  Same centralized gamed bullshit

  Kevin Rose is a looser

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• aramis87@fedia.io ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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