I'm rooting for them simply because I want to see Reddit and them fight. I'm not going to be switching, because I'm basically done with centralized ultracapitalist bullshit for personal use.
100% this. Why would I go back to another centralized corpo line must go up service that will inevitably enshittify when we got lemmy right here?
Its being recorded by Reddit cofounder Alexis ohanian. I don’t think they’ll fight lol
He has nothing to lose by competing. He owns a stake in Reddit, and he's rebooting a competitor. He wins either way, and striking out on his own has a better chance of making him more money than relying on his stake.
If he fails and Reddit "wins," he still has his stake to fall back upon.
I was there that day. In the before time
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."
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.
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.
Why would you expect an aggregator-and-comment site bought and rebranded by reddit-cofounder O'Hanian to end up significantly different than his other aggregator-and-comment site?
US americans trying to cash in on discontent with buzzwords like AI and trying to steal the thunder of actual worthy alternatives like lemmy. The fact Ohanian is part of the founders immediately places it into the shit tier bucket for me.
You're right. An even shittier reddit that failed due to extreme greed before? What's the point?
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!
Yeah sure, this time the giant company won't enshittify.
You shouldn't expect a lot from a zombie.
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.
AI for moderation worry me
Yeah, isn't that what everyone wants?
A website where you talk to people and a robot with no oversight shows up and changes what you say, or silences you, or prevents you from talking to certain people.
At the same time though, I don't care if billionaires play rock and sock em robots with companies. It just kind of sucks for the people that work at those companies, being tools of a game for rich people to play.
Gods no. Why bounce between corpo sellouts?
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.
they should call it dugg.com
Sounds great in theory but proprietary/corpo owned websites don't matter one bit to me anymore.
I used to be on digg. Fuck digg, let's ddos these cunts. Then cook some reddit datacenters.
80% chance is going to be a crypto scam. 20% chance it's going to be a right wing cespool
Rose not listening to users is what killed he platform before, I seriously doubt he has gotten over that ego.
I don't digg it.
I was looking forward to it, but then I got here, and find that it suits me.
With any luck, they'll take some of the users bailing out of Reddit on the nostalgia factor, become mediocre, and die. Again.
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
My god, what's next, the most triumphant return of Geocities, replete with blinking text, construction signs and visitor counter?
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.
Lemmy exists now. We don't need another corporation.
They can fuck off, I remember why I quit that site in the first place
I don’t trust it.
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.
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
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.
Nah, it's gonna be ass, they haven't even launched and they are talking about AI. Totally tone deaf.
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.
Not interested. Ohanian wants to moderate it with AI which is an absolute nope from me. I also have mbin and that's fine for me. I guess the edge case that might make me visit it would be the handful of reddit communities I still use for Japan tax/legal/biz/etc. that won't move to the fediverse decided to move there. I guess that's preferable to occasionally using reddit.
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