If they federate then its good otherwise its just gonna be the same thing as reddit all over again
this post was submitted on 09 Mar 2025
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If there’s no MrBabyMan, why bother?
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.
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.
It sucked so bad it died once and it's still a corpo owned platform. IDK why they want to suck twice 🤷🏻♂️
$$$
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.
Digg was absolutely amazing when it was new, but it didn't take long to turn to shit for some reason, and reddit was way better during the old reddit/Digg war.
Fun thing is that reddit now does many of the same things Digg did before Digg turned completely away from its original concept.
I must admit my hopes for Digg becoming relevant for me again is near zero, like VERY near zero.
If their best angle is to recycle a 20 year old brand ...well I can't imagine that will go very far
I haven’t thought about digg in 20 years. And I don’t intend to start now.
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
I care enough to say i don't give a shit about it.
I don't see any info on this from the sign up page on what it is and product differentiation. So.... I'm signing up because I like Kevin Rose...?
I'm glad Kevin Rose is back on board. However AI Moderation concerns me. Greatly.
Never tried it but I’m worried that they (too) will use AI for moderating and all that. AI as moderator for deleting, flagging and stuff is a bad idea.
Just look at Pinterest’s mess with AI that removes pins and ban accounts for no reason.
I’ll probably wait when Digg is rebooted and see how the early-adopters write about their experiences.
It would be neat if they could get activityhub Integration. Then we can have Tumblr/digg pop up.
Instances admins would start to advocate to defederate from them just like with Meta's Threads IMO.
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lol, sign up for updates? Doomed, fucking doomed
I wonder what they will do differently, this time around. This space is quite crowded already, and getting eye-balls is hard work !
Honestly, all I've ever really known was reddit. In 2011, I remember the cheezburger site having funny memes and seeing "reddit" mentioned a lot. Checked it out and liked it. Magical time back then. Chuck Testa, Tom Cruse, Rampart. sigh
Oh well, it sucks ass now and so far I'm enjoying Lemmy. Will check out the new Digg though, just to support and help reddit die.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯