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.
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Yes, the "yet" is doing all the work here. Along with a heft dose of "Digg was great" for those of its who used it and, well, the inevitable enshittification that all PE-led startups follow. And Rose has proven he's no exception.
A bit like Bluesky, where the USP is "just like Xitter, but without Elmo at the helm". The days are numbered, etc.
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...
All these sites look like children’s toys
Digg tried to unseat reddit decades ago. Didn't fly then, likely not gonna fly now
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I was gonna give it a chance back when they were letting people reserve their usernames. When the site first went live (in beta, I guess?) they wanted me to pay them money to gain access. Enshittification is baked into the platform.
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.
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.
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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
I watched Kevin and company rebuild this through their pre-platform
Same centralized gamed bullshit
Kevin Rose is a looser