This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
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
Look at that, Digg-ing up the corpse of a horse just to beat it more.
Fediverse ftw
This is a rerun, and the fediverse is better
The crossover I didn't know I need
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
Wasn't a lot of their tomfoolery why people relocated to Reddit to begin with?
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.
However, the rise of AI has presented an opportunity to rebuild Digg, Rose and Ohanian believe, leading them to acquire Digg last March through a leveraged buyout by True Ventures, Ohanian’s firm Seven Seven Six, Rose and Ohanian themselves, and the venture firm S32. The company has not disclosed its funding.
May as well get the shovel already.
I highly doubt anyone on the fediverse will migrate from here to there. Perhaps Digg wants Redditors to switch over to them? I don't really understand who this is for.
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.
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.
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
The warm and cozy feel of a VC-funded social network.
Normies can't seem to help but flock to corporate websites only.
Maybe it's because people drive them away from other spaces by doing things like calling them weird pseudo-slurs like "Normies", instead of engaging with them as valid human beings with different lives, experiences and interests who don't always want exactly what we want.
Conceptually what does this offer that the fediverse/threadiverse/lemmy/piefed doesn't?
To us? Nothing. To others? A single place to browse and sign up.
Again? This is like the 8th time they have announced this in the last 10 years.
It's Digg, don't bother with them.
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.
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.
