It would be hilarious to see Digg restart as a Lemmy instance.
this post was submitted on 09 Mar 2025
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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
I love Lemmy but this is exactly my take.
This is why I support it.
I don't want Reddit on Lemmy. Way too many fascists on the hellsite.
I don't digg it.
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they should call it dugg.com
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.
Oh neat! I used to use Fark, too. I just checked and it's still around, just looks a bit dead compared to how I remember it from back in the day.
I started using it in the late 90's or early 2000's, but I stopped sometime in that date range you mentioned. For me, it was the fact that I got multiple back to temporary suspensions (with no warnings). It was like I couldn't do anything right and to some extent, it felt targeted and personal.
I don't even remember them all, but two of the suspensions stick out to me. I got banned for posting the picture of the officially unofficial fark squirrel (i.e. Big Balls). Up until that time, it was basically a Fark meme posted openly and frequently by large numbers of users. I guess advertisers didn't like it and I didn't get the memo. Another suspension came when I responded to a homophobic bigot who was arguing against legalizing gay marriage in the USA by telling him "if you believe that, you are an idiot". Apparently that's name calling, but using cocksucker as a pejorative against another man was still considered A-Okay.
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 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."
You shouldn't expect a lot from a zombie.
There's not much to think about for me.
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.
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.
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?
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Yeah the chasing profit is what ultimately dooms public forums.
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Gods no. Why bounce between corpo sellouts?
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.
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?
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With any luck, they'll take some of the users bailing out of Reddit on the nostalgia factor, become mediocre, and die. Again.
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?
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Why would I go back to Digg when we have Lemmy?
Shorter name.
We should rename lemmy to lem
I digg that comment!
Lemmy express that I really digg yours too. Had to laugh right after I reddit.
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.
Any alternative is not a win. Fediverse only moving forward.
If there’s no MrBabyMan, why bother?
They can fuck off, I remember why I quit that site in the first place
I can't, but I think it was due to a shitty site redesign?
If they federate then its good otherwise its just gonna be the same thing as reddit all over again
Dig long ago dug its grave. Then Reddit jumped in too. Long live Lemmy.
Some of us already left Lemmy or never joined, for the likes of Mbin or PieFed (or eventually Sublinks?).
Long live the Fediverse.
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