Digg Reboot
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Digg - The front page of the internet, now with superpowers

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.

    • bizarroland@fedia.io
      11·
      11 hours ago

      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.

  • Numinous_Ylem@lemmy.worldEnglish
    16·
    4 hours ago

    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.

  • mesamune@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    12 hours ago

    It would be neat if they could get activityhub Integration. Then we can have Tumblr/digg pop up.

    • JayGray91@fedia.io
      3·
      9 hours ago

      Instances admins would start to advocate to defederate from them just like with Meta’s Threads IMO.

  • MimicJar@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    4 hours ago

    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.

  • SwizzleStick@lemmy.zipEnglish
    14·
    9 hours ago

    With any luck, they’ll take some of the users bailing out of Reddit on the nostalgia factor, become mediocre, and die. Again.

  • sunzu2@thebrainbin.org
    61·
    12 hours 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

  • Phoenixz@lemmy.caEnglish
    3·
    5 hours ago

    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

  • InfiniteGlitch@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    3·
    13 hours ago

    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.

    • OpenStars@piefed.socialEnglish
      3·
      6 hours ago

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

      Long live the Fediverse.

  • aramis87@fedia.io
    47·
    12 hours ago

    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?