Interview with Kevin Rose, co founder of Digg (www.theverge.com)

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[-] xenomor@lemmy.world 71 points 2 months ago

At the height of digg, I thought Rose was kind of cool. One of those Silicon Valley success stories that used to inspire tech enthusiasts like me. I watched diggnation and bought in to the culture being presented. But I’ll never forget that when digg 4 released, and bombed, Kevin threw his own employees and developers under the bus instead of taking responsibility for strategic mistakes. It was really eye opening to me about him and many of the other frauds that Silicon Valley hoists up as role models. Since then, he’s done nothing to dissuade me that he’s just another talentless tech-bro asshole that got way more attention and money than he deserved.

[-] Crackhappy@lemmy.world 38 points 2 months ago

Same thing with Spez, tbh.

[-] Head 6 points 2 months ago

Why would we assume you're not being honest? Pretty sure we're mostly all here due to hating Spez.

[-] Crackhappy@lemmy.world 22 points 2 months ago

I think you overthought my response, tbh

[-] CallMeButtLove@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

I watched Diggnation a lot too because it felt like TechTV was living on in some little way. I remember thinking Alex Albrecht was pretty cool at the time. I haven't thought about that in well over a decade. I'd rather not look him up now because I don't want to know if he's actually a piece of shit like Tommy Talerico haha.

[-] itsgroundhogdayagain@lemmy.ml 32 points 2 months ago

What year is it?

[-] stankmut@lemmy.world 17 points 2 months ago

They are running a 2004 week, looking back at tech from that era.

[-] JohnWorks@sh.itjust.works 26 points 2 months ago

I will say I kinda rolled my eyes at the end where he said he'd remake digg with ai but the idea of having comments be auto moderated to be detected as contributing to a conversation of the article vs attacking someone seemed interesting.

[-] treadful@lemmy.zip 7 points 2 months ago

the idea of having comments be auto moderated to be detected as contributing to a conversation of the article vs attacking someone seemed interesting.

Echo chamber enforcement.

[-] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 16 points 2 months ago

No way, the guy from TechTV!?

[-] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 24 points 2 months ago

Yup. He’s VC now. Seems like just another Silicon Valley tech bro, not sure why anyone should care about him anymore.

[-] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 40 points 2 months ago

From Wikipedia:

Rose co-founded the Proof Collective, a group of NFT collectors

Yeah, tech bro douche confirmed.

[-] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

All downhill after The Screen Savers. Except financially, presumably.

[-] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 18 points 2 months ago

Leo’s still doing his thing though. I support the TWiT network because I value independent journalism. They’re mostly commentary but still.

[-] 8000gnat@reddthat.com 2 points 2 months ago

hopefully not still posting images of his thing on stream tho

[-] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

lol couldn’t tell you from my car, pretty much just my commute fodder

[-] anon_8675309@lemmy.world 16 points 2 months ago

Isn’t he just a shill for questionable shit now?

[-] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago

Anyone else remember that time Rose threw a raccoon?

[-] cheeseburger@lemmy.ca 12 points 2 months ago

I remember; he caught the racoon attacking his dog. The GIF is still all over the internet and makes me lol every time.

The video with his dog and explanation is on his YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/hHN-f6xTzsY

GIF of the money-shot: Kevin tosses a racoon

[-] CallMeButtLove@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

I love animals and am against animal cruelty but I'd yeet the hell out of a raccoon if it was attacking my dog. I miss you Maddie girl.

[-] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 months ago

That's a while raccoon army he's throwing

[-] rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

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[-] RagingInside@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

It's pretty neat how they have a custom design for that interview.

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