Lots of venture capital money behind it. I wonder how quickly the enshitification will begin.
This is a rerun, and the fediverse is better
Reddit was the Digg replacement.
oh how the turn tables
EDIT: Thanks for the gold, kind stranger!
Yeah… no. None of that sounds appealing.
‘Curbing toxicity with AI’ means a bot is going to ban you because it doesn’t recognise sarcasm.
And ‘new tech to verify your identity’ sounds like a privacy violation at best.
‘Verifying that you own a product before they let you post in its community’ is a complete lack of understanding of how people use places like this.
Digg can fuck right off.
While AI obviously is not perfect and is flawed in many ways, having AI sift through the torrent of comments and then flag problematic submissions for human review is likely going to be extremely effective with minimal false positives. Though I do say this as a person whose Reddit account is currently banned for 3 days for “inciting violence” because of a knife-based joke.
“I run faster with a knife!!”
I have been permanently banned from Reddit for wishing for a natural disease process to occur in a certain individual. If only I were that powerful of a manifestor our world would be a better place.
Yeah, the verifying that you own a product thing is so dumb.
“Hey <insert product> community. I’m thinking about purchasing <insert product>, but I wanted to know if it can do X, Y, and Z.”
“your post has been deleted because you have not proven that you own <insert product>.”
Wow, it’s like they made Reddit even worse.
Your comment would be autoremoved for the last line lol
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.
This is like the 3rd time digg is trying to exist.
Fediverse ftw
Someone will have to let me know because I’m not wasting my time there. I’m going to keep wasting my time here. It’s a fantastic waste of time
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.
Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.
Meh, it’s still corpo space.
It started out enshittified, ai automod will take down your posts/comments for anything inappropriate like saying shit or fuck. No what the fucks on digg. They may have fixed it temporarily since ppl were complaining.
Idk, the moment they swapped the shovel and tombstone for basic triangle upvote/downvotes I knew it was going to be corporate slop for the general public.
Again? This is like the 8th time they have announced this in the last 10 years.
I was gonna say this is at least Digg 3.0.
Wasn’t Digg 2.0 what “created” Reddit (or at least gave it critical mass) (along with the child porn obviously)
As far as I recall, that’s how it went.
Digg dug its own grave.
Ahh that brings back memories. First video game I ever played. :)
I can hear this image.
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.
It wasn’t. It became something else, now they’re re-pivoting it back, but with more AI trash.
