Digg Reboot
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Digg - The front page of the internet, now with superpowers

Not much info yet, but I grew up on Digg, so I’m cautiously optimistic. Probably no Fediverse support, but honestly, any Reddit alternative is a win. Really hoping for real API access and third-party apps.

  • @Numinous_Ylem@lemmy.worldEnglish
    22•2 months ago

    The original Digg was an important site for me personally between 2005-2009, but only in that early era and mostly as a bridge between my Fark and Reddit eras. I honestly can’t see it competing with Reddit’s established user base or being as no-nonsense and free as Lemmy. I don’t think it will gain traction and the AI aspect will turn a lot of people off from it.

  • dantheclammanEnglish
    16•2 months ago

    I am not optimistic. Kevin Rose spent the last few years doing crypto/NFT nonsense, and is now on the AI train. Plus, link aggregators have tried to double down on AI with mixed results. See the example of Artifact, which crashed and burned just last year. There is no business model for this, and if there were, I wouldn’t trust Kevin Rose to deliver it. I say this as someone who was a massive Digg/Revision3/Diggnation fan as a teenager but grew disillusioned.

  • qazEnglish
    13•2 months ago

    I’m not going to go back to a closed-source centralized platform

  • Stop Forgetting ItEnglish
    13•2 months ago

    80% chance is going to be a crypto scam. 20% chance it’s going to be a right wing cespool

    Rose not listening to users is what killed he platform before, I seriously doubt he has gotten over that ego.

  • @zarkanian@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    13•2 months ago

    In 2025, that’s like saying “Hey, we should go back to Myspace!” Myspace did a complete makeover, too. Does anybody care? No.

  • @MimicJar@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12•2 months ago

    Really hoping for real API access and third-party apps.

    I mean that’s the only way it will have any success. I don’t expect it to happen, but that’s historically how any of these sites have grown and flourished.

    It would be funny if Digg was able to successfully reboot and take users away from Reddit, however I don’t expect it to actually happen.

    Also, stating the obvious, time would be better spent improving Lemmy.

  • @Buffalox@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11•2 months ago

    Digg was absolutely amazing when it was new, but it didn’t take long to turn to shit for some reason, and reddit was way better during the old reddit/Digg war.
    Fun thing is that reddit now does many of the same things Digg did before Digg turned completely away from its original concept.

    I must admit my hopes for Digg becoming relevant for me again is near zero, like VERY near zero.

      • @lengau@midwest.socialEnglish
        2•2 months ago

        Not really the same thing though, since Trump’s thingy wasn’t one of the things that popularised that type of site.