I'm rooting for them simply because I want to see Reddit and them fight. I'm not going to be switching, because I'm basically done with centralized ultracapitalist bullshit for personal use.

US americans trying to cash in on discontent with buzzwords like AI and trying to steal the thunder of actual worthy alternatives like lemmy. The fact Ohanian is part of the founders immediately places it into the shit tier bucket for me.

Why would you expect an aggregator-and-comment site bought and rebranded by reddit-cofounder O'Hanian to end up significantly different than his other aggregator-and-comment site?

AI for moderation worry me

Why would I go back to Digg when we have Lemmy?

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They say they'll use AI, so fuck them.

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.

Didn't use dig but not going back to centralized link aggerators after what I saw happen with reddit over the years. CEOs can't be trusted.

Digg lost its popularity for the same reason Reddit is. It started taking investment money and began to please only the share holders. Yeah it's private owned again, but they will just repeat the cycle because the temptation is there.

I've only been using Lemmy for a few months, but it seems to me that taking any instance public will not be a feasible business model. i don't recommend anyone go back to digg unless you just like watching enshitification happen. Should they reboot Ebaulmsworld while they're at it? I know that last statement struck a nerve!

Yeah sure, this time the giant company won't enshittify.

Meh, I've moved on. I was addicted to digg back in the day, but they'll have to earn viewership back from me. Not impossible, but content, moderation, and monitization are going to be hard to perfect these days.

Digg killed digg IMO. They either learned a lesson, or it's more of the same.

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.

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

You shouldn't expect a lot from a zombie.

With any luck, they'll take some of the users bailing out of Reddit on the nostalgia factor, become mediocre, and die. Again.

Gods no. Why bounce between corpo sellouts?

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

It would be hilarious to see Digg restart as a Lemmy instance.

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.

they should call it dugg.com

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.

Sounds great in theory but proprietary/corpo owned websites don't matter one bit to me anymore.

It sucked so bad it died once and it's still a corpo owned platform. IDK why they want to suck twice 🤷🏻‍♂️

I'm fine right here, thanks. Although I'd been using Reddit for some time at that point, I permanently left Digg as part of the Great Exodus. I don't see any particular appeal to going back to a centralized service, especially in the current climate.

Dig long ago dug its grave. Then Reddit jumped in too. Long live Lemmy.

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.

I used to be on digg. Fuck digg, let's ddos these cunts. Then cook some reddit datacenters.

I don't digg it.

If they federate then its good otherwise its just gonna be the same thing as reddit all over again

I was looking forward to it, but then I got here, and find that it suits me.

I still remember the mass migration to reddit. Digg had an old website that didn't scale to their userbase. They deployed a new site, and everyone hated the design. They couldn't continue on the old website because it would crash and burn.

The important part is that Kevin, Alex and all of Digg were quite open and honest about the situation. At no point were they being jerks. They just couldn't keep manage the technical hurdles.

My god, what's next, the most triumphant return of Geocities, replete with blinking text, construction signs and visitor counter?

If they put a lot of focused on having a good UX and some marketing I could see it outgrow Lemmy the same way Bluesky outgrew Mastodon

Lemmy exists now. We don't need another corporation.

If their best angle is to recycle a 20 year old brand ...well I can't imagine that will go very far

Bought and revived by Alexis Ohanian? It can only turn out into a dumpster fire. It's probably just to diversify their data collection in case there's an actual massive Reddit exodus and the brand name becomes too toxic.