Digg Reboot
reboot.digg.com
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
      14·
      3 months 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.

  • BoxOfFeet@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    3 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.

  • pHr34kY@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    3 months ago

    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.

  • Numinous_Ylem@lemmy.worldEnglish
    26·
    3 months 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.

    • GooberEar@lemmy.wtfEnglish
      5·
      3 months ago

      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.

  • MimicJar@lemmy.worldEnglish
    161·
    3 months 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.

  • dantheclamman@lemmy.worldEnglish
    18·
    3 months ago

    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.

  • SwizzleStick@lemmy.zipEnglish
    17·
    3 months 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
    71·
    3 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

  • Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
    English
    8·
    3 months 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

  • tiredofsametab@fedia.io
    7·
    3 months ago

    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.