Some may find this amusing and interesting: Digg doesn't seem to be as active as the Fediverse.
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I’m surprised they’re not just lying on their metrics and vote counts tbh
They wanna differenciate themselves from reddit
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Heard of digg, tried it, huge NFT and ai thumpers there. Wouldn’t recommend
I can’t believe people are still selling NFTs!
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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.
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.
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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.
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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]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
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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.
I was here when lemmy was mostly reposts of reddit shit. Now we’ve grown so much
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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.
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.
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Isn’t the new Digg significantly younger though?
It had a large following back in the day. They haven’t attracted hardly anyone back. So they did have a potential jumpstart with previous users that they have failed to energize and capture.
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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.
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.
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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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