178
Digg is about to be rebooted. Thoughts? (reboot.digg.com)
submitted 4 months ago by aCosmicWave@lemm.ee to c/technology@lemmy.world
118 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Not much info yet, but I grew up on Digg, so I’m cautiously optimistic. Probably no Fediverse support, but honestly, any Reddit alternative is a win. Really hoping for real API access and third-party apps.

(page 2) 50 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[-] BoxOfFeet@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago

I'm maxed out on social media. Lemmy is my main one. Then, there's Facebook so my old relatives can see baby pics. I'd rather not, but they're old and set in their ways. I have Discord strictly as a chat platform with my brother and a couple college buddies for gaming. I have LinkedIn for work, and never look at it. And finally, I watch YouTube (Revanced). That's it. There's no room for Digg anymore.

[-] JustZ@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

Leave Facebook. Nobody will notice. If anyone does notice, text them the pics.

[-] RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 months ago

I started getting incredible sales job offers that im not qualified for in my email recently. It turns out at some point 7 years ago I updated it to say I sold cars and never changed it. Thus these companies think I have years slinging cars when IRL it was a year. Im not salesperson with a massive capacity to take abuse so those gigs arent for me.

load more comments (1 replies)
[-] rocky1138@sh.itjust.works 6 points 4 months ago

Any alternative is not a win. Fediverse only moving forward.

[-] PeteWheeler@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago

No real info, so I am not hopeful and cynical.

My guess the new superpower is AI stuff or a shop to give them money for the memes.

[-] Dil@is.hardlywork.ing 5 points 4 months ago

Its gonna be linked to reddit and theyll pretend its federated to take steam away from federated stuff like bluesky did to mastodon

[-] echodot@feddit.uk 3 points 4 months ago

There seems to be this possessive myth that Mastodon would have been more popular if only it hadn't been for Bluesky. Nah. It would have been exactly as popular as it currently is. The techies like us would have found it, just like we did, but everyone else would haven't have used it. Everyone would just still be on Twitter.

I get everyone's beef with Bluesky, but let's not pretend that Mastodon isn't responsible for its own problems.

load more comments (1 replies)
[-] StrawberryPigtails@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 4 months ago

Dig long ago dug its grave. Then Reddit jumped in too. Long live Lemmy.

[-] OpenStars@piefed.social 3 points 4 months ago

Some of us already left Lemmy or never joined, for the likes of Mbin or PieFed (or eventually Sublinks?).

Long live the Fediverse.

[-] mp3@lemmy.ca 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Bought and revived by Alexis Ohanian? It can only turn out into a dumpster fire. It's probably just to diversify their data collection in case there's an actual massive Reddit exodus and the brand name becomes too toxic.

[-] baggachipz@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 months ago

If there’s no MrBabyMan, why bother?

[-] scarabic@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

Thoughts? Frankly, none.

[-] Kolanaki@pawb.social 3 points 4 months ago

It sucked so bad it died once and it's still a corpo owned platform. IDK why they want to suck twice 🤷🏻‍♂️

load more comments (1 replies)
[-] FreeBooteR69@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 months ago

I care enough to say i don't give a shit about it.

[-] pastermil@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 months ago

There's not much to think about for me.

[-] catsakimbo@lemm.ee 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

My moderation barometer will be If I see Luigi posts on the front page, I'll give it a shot ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[-] Ebby@lemmy.ssba.com 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Meh, I've moved on. I was addicted to digg back in the day, but they'll have to earn viewership back from me. Not impossible, but content, moderation, and monitization are going to be hard to perfect these days.

Digg killed digg IMO. They either learned a lesson, or it's more of the same.

[-] Bell@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

If their best angle is to recycle a 20 year old brand ...well I can't imagine that will go very far

[-] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 2 points 4 months ago

Too late now...

Fedi4life

This digg is set up is to catch the normies exiting reddit so they don't end up here IMHO

Just another corpo set up

[-] muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee 2 points 4 months ago

If they federate then its good otherwise its just gonna be the same thing as reddit all over again

[-] org2001@lemmy.radio 2 points 4 months ago

I wonder what they will do differently, this time around. This space is quite crowded already, and getting eye-balls is hard work !

load more comments
view more: ‹ prev next ›
this post was submitted on 09 Mar 2025
178 points (92.8% liked)

Technology

73455 readers
1339 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related news or articles.
  3. Be excellent to each other!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
  10. Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.

Approved Bots

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
L3s@lemmy.world
enu@lemmy.world
technopagan@lemmy.world
L4s@lemmy.world
L3s@hackingne.ws
L4s@hackingne.ws