This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
I actually kept going to Digg for a long, long time after it became essentially useless. I guess it was just part of my daily website routine.
As soon as I found out about the ownership change and what they were doing I said "so long" and have no intention of ever going there.
I wonder how quickly the enshitification will begin.
Lots of venture capital money behind it.
It already began.
Yeah, the moment it came into existence it was shit.
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Meh, it's still corpo space.
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
There are hundreds of us. Maybe thousands!
Its just me using thousands of accounts! In fact, you're just one of my alternative accounts too Muahahahaha
Shut up Eggman.
Who? I thought they were dead
Sounds like an unholy wedding of AI and privacy nightmare to me.
I dug Digg once upon a time. When they tried to undermine the power users, I found Reddit. Then Reddit enshittified. Now I got Lemmy. It's where I want to be. No company behind it, milking the users.
My timeline was
Fark>Slashdot>Digg>Reddit>Lemmy
I don’t allow loops.
Pre-digg immigration OG reddit user here. The enshittification of reddit started when digg users joined en masse and flooded the site with advice animal memes and f7u13 macros.
As someone with a 20 year old Reddit account, I have to say I agree. The character of Reddit did change noticeably when digg users came over. And that’s fine. But it definitely happened.
Maybe now they can go back to Digg.
Yep, I'm ready to read the news that this platform surpassed the user base of Lemmy on the first day and never looked back. And I am ready to not be bothered by it.
Good on them for any pain they inflict on reddit. And I do hope the fediverse takes over the global media landscape because that is better for humanity than corpo-governmental gatekeepers. But if Lemmy's user base just hangs around in the tens of thousands rather than the tens of millions, I am content.
I disagree about being content with a small user base, I want more niche communities beyond News/Politics, Linux/FOSS, and memes.
Be the change you want to see in the world
It’s effing hard. Doubled the numbers on one community after a year. Both of us are a bit depressed by that.
I have mixed feelings.
On one hand, agreed @ wanting more variety in communities.
OTOH, Lemmy already has too much fucking politics. I don't want whatever's infecting reddit to become even MORE prevalent here. shudder
How much worse could it really become in terms of politics? It already feels like 60% of posts are politics, and jumps to 90% if you include the “Windows/Google/AI bad, use Linux/Librewolf/Selfhost” posts.
Sorry for being off topic (from the article), but I have a little community of translators on lemmy.ca if you're interested in niche communities.
Sadly that’s not one of my niche interests. But thanks for the offer!
What? Where? Nice!
I don't know man, but Lemmy and the Fediverse seems to be a more mature ecosystem than that. Digg just looks like a stripped-down version of Reddit with no specific feature
it was the OG reddit, before reddit took over.
They are going to use Ai to moderate, lol... That will be fun to watch.
They already do on Reddit..
I'm a little half and half on it. A lot of people like myself are fed up with the obsessive way AI is pushed into everything, but I can see it having uses.
For instance, sifting through 20,000 "This user didn't accept my argument evidence" reports to find some that have merit; that can be worthwhile, even if all it does is alert a human to take a look and make a full judgment. Besides, the bar for quality moderators on sites like Reddit is low.
Let’s also remember that AI has many different meanings. It depends on what technology they’re using. AI is just literally a type of computer program that can be used for a variety of things.
Sooo, Digg started to monetize, Manipulate the feeds for money, allowing Reddit to swoop in and steal their lunch. Doubled down as the platform emptied, now 15 years later, they say Trust me, Bro?
It already sucks, I did the beta and it started to suck then. Now I cannot login because their login method sucks. I am done. I am happy on Lemmy.
I will never return to walled garden internet. You burned all your good will by being greedy and horrible.
"We are good to users, there is absolutely not a 2nd step here that we've done before"
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.
We left Digg for Reddit about 20 years ago because of enshitification, the same way we left Reddit for the Fediverse recently, there is no way I am going back to Digg!
Doesn't look good. People are creating communities about the popular communities on reddit just to look good but do not post anything on them
Wow, I can't wait to never use that and forget all about it.
