I don’t trust it.
this post was submitted on 09 Mar 2025
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Nah, it's gonna be ass, they haven't even launched and they are talking about AI. Totally tone deaf.
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
They can fuck off, I remember why I quit that site in the first place
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Reddit's seeing membership outflows resulting from their more draconian policies. Reddit boss restarts a competitor platform so that he can try and recapture users by owning his own competition, while trying to pretend like there's no conflict.
idk. Seems pretty suspect to me. Lemmy seems 'ok' for news aggregation, and it has a more community / local vibe to it. For example, I can have more confidence that the feeds I see on Lemmy.ca are more controlled / accountable to Canadians, rather than the heavily Americanized subs that exist in Reddit. And I can pick and choose which other subs to see, with better understanding of the likely biases that I'll encounter. This sort of end user transparency is really refreshing, especially given the burbling propaganda war being waged by the Americans at present against Canada.
I haven’t thought about digg in 20 years. And I don’t intend to start now.
I care enough to say i don't give a shit about it.
I don’t have high hopes. Kevin and Alexis had an opportunity to succeed with Digg and Reddit already. The enshittification of Digg was complete, there’s no going back. And Reddit, well, it’s Reddit.
We need something new and innovative, and I don’t see resurrecting a dead horse as adding any value to the current ecosystem of social and news apps.
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.
Any alternative is not a win. Fediverse only moving forward.
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.
Leave Facebook. Nobody will notice. If anyone does notice, text them the pics.
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No real info, so I am not hopeful and cynical.
My guess the new superpower is AI stuff or a shop to give them money for the memes.
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
Its gonna be linked to reddit and theyll pretend its federated to take steam away from federated stuff like bluesky did to mastodon
There seems to be this possessive myth that Mastodon would have been more popular if only it hadn't been for Bluesky. Nah. It would have been exactly as popular as it currently is. The techies like us would have found it, just like we did, but everyone else would haven't have used it. Everyone would just still be on Twitter.
I get everyone's beef with Bluesky, but let's not pretend that Mastodon isn't responsible for its own problems.
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I'm glad Kevin Rose is back on board. However AI Moderation concerns me. Greatly.
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.
It would be neat if they could get activityhub Integration. Then we can have Tumblr/digg pop up.
Instances admins would start to advocate to defederate from them just like with Meta's Threads IMO.
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lol, sign up for updates? Doomed, fucking doomed
My moderation barometer will be If I see Luigi posts on the front page, I'll give it a shot ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
If there’s no MrBabyMan, why bother?
There's not much to think about for me.
Thoughts? Frankly, none.
I don't see any info on this from the sign up page on what it is and product differentiation. So.... I'm signing up because I like Kevin Rose...?