Technology

The only Reddit alt I need is Lemmy.

This is a rerun, and the fediverse is better

Reddit was the Digg replacement.

Plus, Rose suggests Digg could use signals acquired from mobile devices to help verify members — for instance, the app could identify when Digg users attended a meetup in the same location.

Maybe I'm being paranoid, but this does not sound like a good thing for privacy.

Yeah… no. None of that sounds appealing.

‘Curbing toxicity with AI’ means a bot is going to ban you because it doesn’t recognise sarcasm.

And ‘new tech to verify your identity’ sounds like a privacy violation at best.

‘Verifying that you own a product before they let you post in its community’ is a complete lack of understanding of how people use places like this.

Digg can fuck right off.

They’re betting that AI can help to address some of the messiness and toxicity of today’s social media landscape. At the same time, social platforms will need a new set of tools to ensure they’re not taken over by AI bots posing as people.

"We're banking on AI as a competitive advantage but also, here's why it's bad" is quite a business strategy

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

We left Digg for Reddit about 20 years ago because of enshitification, the same way we left Reddit for the Fediverse recently, there is no way I am going back to Digg!

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.

We left Digg for Reddit, then they enshitified Reddit so we went to the fediverse and now they want to bring Digg back. The turd just circles the toilet bowl endlessly.

Ooohhh a venture capitalist social media platform! I wonder how and in how many overly creative and putrid ways that site will try and fuck me over, inside and out.

Yeah, hells no

You mean the digg everyone ditched for reddit when they went insane? That digg?
I think some people don't even realize that digg used to be way more popular than that very basic reddit thingy nobody used.

Oh look, another centralized social media site owned by tech bros!

I will never return to walled garden internet. You burned all your good will by being greedy and horrible.

Fuck all of these silicon valley parasites.

Even before they maximize revenue and as a result enshitify the site, the government and monied interests will have or be able to get their hooks in them, to influence moderation, visibility, allowing influence ops now going nuclear with government connected ones utilizing the cutting edge chat bots, along with agents and bots. Some half of all interactions are fake as such now they think.

We need to make federated social media a thing. Like this, but better instances making it more usable to get tje critical mass of users.

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

This is like the 3rd time digg is trying to exist.

Fediverse ftw

They are going to use Ai to moderate, lol... That will be fun to watch.

Someone will have to let me know because I’m not wasting my time there. I’m going to keep wasting my time here. It’s a fantastic waste of time

Look at that, Digg-ing up the corpse of a horse just to beat it more.

I was interested for like 15-20 seconds until I realized I have this place now and I actually don't give an exploding flying fuck

What's the point of this when Fediverse is technologically superior?

I dug Digg once upon a time. When they tried to undermine the power users, I found Reddit. Then Reddit enshittified. Now I got Lemmy. It's where I want to be. No company behind it, milking the users.

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.

Meh, it's still corpo space.

Everyone should go post the HD DVD key.

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.

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...

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.