I was here when lemmy was mostly reposts of reddit shit. Now we've grown so much
this post was submitted on 26 Feb 2026
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I was kinda excited about it, having used it for a while before moving on to reddit like a lot of others, but after getting my invite and trying it out for a while it just seemed like a lot of auto posted tech articles and not much discussion. I realize the thing that changed most was perhaps my relationship and views on technology, I'm not excited about where any of it is going to be honest, where as when the first digg came around I was very optimistic that the web was going to turn the world into a utopia lmao.
Yeah I like the whole thing I've been on there for a couple months and it just is repetition after repetition not very many posts it's worse than here.
The problem was that they launched with barely any mod or curation tools, and haven't really added anything since. Rimu, just one guy, should not be having a better development cycle than something like Digg after launch - especially when most of the things they need to add are pretty basic currently.
Yeah, I suppose we shouldn't be too shocked though, Kevin Rose has been around SV long enough, I'm sure he could muster up a bit more, the site doesn't even seem to have a vision really. I suspect it will just be datamined or used as some experiment/testing ground.
Isn't the new Digg significantly younger though?
Yes, it's relaunched.
I honestly haven't even gone to look at it yet. I'm totally satisfied with Lemmy, why bother?
Because if something exists in a vacuum, without challenge, then theres no motivation for betterment and no repercussions for enshitification.
fair enough but I'm not a Lemmy dev and Digg is still dead to me from the last time they died, which was for a good reason
I totally forgot about that.
I'm surprised they're not just lying on their metrics and vote counts tbh
They wanna differenciate themselves from reddit ;)
Fuck Digg fuck Reddit
I think the hype is propped up by money and astroturfing, I don't expect it will last
What hype? I was only barely aware it relaunched itself.
Reddit users lol
Ah, ok. I don't use reddit any more.
Heard of digg, tried it, huge NFT and ai thumpers there. Wouldn’t recommend
I can't believe people are still selling NFTs!
Oh right, I forgot I had a Digg account. It's so boring and non-consequential I really forgot that I signed up back before the beta came out. I just spent a couple minutes looking at it and there is so little interesting content it's embarrassing. I don't know if it's being sanitized but there is literally nothing interesting there.
Yup. I think I've only visited twice since I signed up. There's no reason.
Keeping in mind that I didn't use Digg much back in the day, I don't really understand the idea of re-launching a service that fell out of use in the first place.
Or if MySpace (etc) was to relaunch with modern features, could it expect to succeed out of nostalgia, or something..?
You halfway answered your own question there. Just like in games and movies, they are lazily leaning on nostalgia in the hopes that it will magically generate some money.
that ship has long sailed to REDDIT, and they arnt going back.
You think? With those things you mention, you can make a product that pushes the right buttons, hits the right notes, and be done with it, letting it sell itself on its own from that point forward.
Now compare that to relaunching a major social media platform and keeping it alive with investor money until it eventually and hopefully 'makes it.' Seems like a considerably different thing to me.
I'm reminded of the Arsenio Hall Show which ran from '89-94, did well for its time, but whose shelf life kind of naturally expired. They tried to bring it back in 2013, but cancelled it after a single season, because... nostalgia could only prop it up for so long. Or something like that.
Nostalgia and hoping to grab users as they abandon reddit, which is where the users originally moved in the first place.
There is a myspace clone I saw about 2 years ago. I was new to the fediverse. I THOUGHT the myspace clone was part of the fediverse. It wasn't.
I was going to join, but turns out this service was not open source. It's not part of the fediverse. It's essentially just some guy running the service, and can freely read anyones messages.
So I didn't join. But if there were an open source federated version of myspace? Yes. I would join.
Really? What about it do you miss? (presuming)
Friendica says "hello".
I thought that was facebook?
Good!
Despite that my niche community is doing better on digg with the same level of effort