Some may find this amusing and interesting: Digg doesn't seem to be as active as the Fediverse.
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and can freely read anyones messages.
You do realize this is true of any service, yes? Unless there is 1:1 end-to-end encryption, perhaps. Even there, unless you’re pasting in encrypted data into the app, the app can potentially send your unencrypted data somewhere.
That may all be true and all, but other services aren’t one guy.
It would be like signing up for a fediverse instance, which uses closed source software, and it’s just one guy running the service for a small amount of people.
I don’t know who runs Lemmy.world, but at no point do I think the admins are targeting me, to read through my inbox. My judgement says that’s not what the admins are doing with their time.
But this myspace clone had 300ish registered members on a single centralized closed source platform being run and created by one guy with zero oversight. I can’t say that he created the service specifically to spy on people, but it certainly doesn’t pass the sniff test.
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Digg’s officially launched now for about a month and it’s… really underwhelming.
The “Most Dugg” posts by upvotes as of this post:
+110, +107, +89, +86, +84, +84, +79, +79 (roughly in the last 24 hours)
As compared to Lemmy/Piefed/Mbin as seen on Lemmy.world (Top in last 24 hours):
+1.22k, +952, +855, +751, +669, +646, +620, +612
That’s really poor from Digg honestly.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]*actively stirs
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Digg’s officially launched now for about a month and it’s… really underwhelming.
The “Most Dugg” posts by upvotes as of this post:
+110, +107, +89, +86, +84, +84, +79, +79 (roughly in the last 24 hours)
As compared to Lemmy/Piefed/Mbin as seen on Lemmy.world (Top in last 24 hours):
+1.22k, +952, +855, +751, +669, +646, +620, +612
That’s really poor from Digg honestly.
It’s interesting hearing “There’s nothing on Digg it’s dead, fediverse is more active” because when I joined Lemmy people were using the same comparison of reddit vs the fediverse. Things take time to build and they are still in beta. Lemmy is way more active and settled than when I first joined (hell I originally joined kbin instead). It’s good to have competition. I am active on both and I believe they will have different demographics.
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And then I found out: The cohost of Diggnation is Alex Albrecht. His father is a fellow at the Heritage Foundation and one of the authors of Project 2025.
This is really good to know. Are you aware if this has ever been addressed by them or anyone else ever?
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And then I found out: The cohost of Diggnation is Alex Albrecht. His father is a fellow at the Heritage Foundation and one of the authors of Project 2025.
wonder if someone’s made a map of all p2025/heritage foundation connections
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It’s interesting hearing “There’s nothing on Digg it’s dead, fediverse is more active” because when I joined Lemmy people were using the same comparison of reddit vs the fediverse. Things take time to build and they are still in beta. Lemmy is way more active and settled than when I first joined (hell I originally joined kbin instead). It’s good to have competition. I am active on both and I believe they will have different demographics.
My niche community already works better on digg
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Because if something exists in a vacuum, without challenge, then theres no motivation for betterment and no repercussions for enshitification.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Are you just suggesting Lemmy needs competition? It has plenty of competition with PieFed and Mbin. Also in a way, every instance is competing with the others. Especially when talking about enshitification, the competition of instances is a big deal. Even if the software goes bad, good instances can just stay on the old good version, and fork it together.
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My niche community already works better on digg
Some things will definitely work better over there.
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I can’t believe people are still selling NFTs!
IKR it was weird and ridiculous
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And then I found out: The cohost of Diggnation is Alex Albrecht. His father is a fellow at the Heritage Foundation and one of the authors of Project 2025.
I understand how probable things can be, but good lord, I would be so aggravated if people judged me based on my father’s politics
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