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The only Reddit alt I need is Lemmy.

I really wanted to like it, but it's already a right-wing cesspit. 🤷‍♂️ Maaaaaybe it'll improve, now that it's public, but I don't have high hopes.

I know this place is just the opposite kind of echo chamber, but when the other option is being beaten over the head with transphobia and Maga shit, ehh, I'll take it.

This is a rerun, and the fediverse is better

Reddit was the Digg replacement.

Everyone should go post the HD DVD key.

Conceptually what does this offer that the fediverse/threadiverse/lemmy/piefed doesn't?

What then does it say about the actual value of this company and others like it?

If you want a hypercurated/focused reddit experience just join metafilter.

https://www.metafilter.com/

Somehow I don't get the feeling the owners of Digg are going to be happy with the level of income Metafilter brings in to its owners however....

“We kind of opted for … let’s just keep building this plane as we fly it,” explained Digg CEO Justin Mezzell. “That means that it’s going to be very lightweight, and we’re just going to be aggressively shipping every week and just giving them new features as we go,” he added.

camera slowly pans and zooms out to the Fediverse where mint condition airplanes can be seen everywhere with the word FREE on them

Again? This is like the 8th time they have announced this in the last 10 years.

Me checking it out: types d i g g . c o m enter

Digg: Something went wrong! Show errror

Me: clicks show error box nothing

Welp so much for that

This has all the markings of more VC AI garbage. Hopefully it does pull some users away from Reddit just to break up the centralization a little bit more, but overall I don't see what the appeal is supposed to be.

I'll stick with the fediverse.

Unfortunatly niche communities are still dead on lemmy. I may have to use digg

I left Digg 15 years ago. I'm surprised it's still around.

I've only heard about it since in this way, some quick announcement about the "new Digg". And, then, nothing.

Reddit banned me for saying "see a Nazi, punch a Nazi." There's no way I'm going to bother with Digg, that's the past, and I have no doubt they'd sooner than later be the same as Reddit in that regard.

I see they’re making a play for that sweet “I liked this before it went public and got enshittified so I’m gonna switch to this other one that hasn’t gone public and gotten enshittified yet and hope it gets popular enough that it goes public and gets enshittified” cash.

Clicked around...looks like every corpo site out there. Im not sure what this gives other than yet another place to talk about very general subjects.

I just dont see the appeal to be honest. At least with the fedi, we can chose what our joinable communities look like. This just looks like yet another "app". With a never ending feed...

Shouldn’t this be in nottheonion?

Digg.com didn't load for me, good start 😅

It's gonna be enshittified from the get go. Reddit grew organically then enshittifed over time. Creating a new platform backed by VC in this day and age is guaranteed to be immediately bad.

Interesting, but nah. They launched it before for influencers to join, and I'm not sure how many did. I haven't heard much about it. It sounds like it's gonna be very corporate run. I have no idea what the political climate will be, but there's a lot of big money behind it, so that's not great. I got kicked off Reddit for saying child abusers should be punished more harshly, which says way more about Reddit than it does about me. I don't trust Digg to be any better.

Considering that Alexis Ohanian is involved, it looks like he wants another bite at the apple, so it'll likely go downhill pretty quickly.

I’ll pass

I likely won't be using it, but I can appreciate any Reddit alternatives.

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