I got an email with an invitation to join a site that I used to follow back in the early 2010’s(?). It was basically a news aggregator where user shares and engagement would boost articles to the top of the site. Anyway, it’s back and invite only. Now it is a pseudo-reddit clone. From what I can see there seem to be fewer users on there than here. It would be a shame if the lot of us got on there and started shaping the narrative…
I left digg for Reddit, left Reddit for Lemmy. I’m definitely not going full circle
I don’t mean to sound unduly negative, but I can’t imagine that any new corporate social media platform isn’t going to have censorship tools extensively baked in from the start.
idk they might be happy to have the traffic. not to sound marxist but, force the contradiction?
what’s next, slashdot?
livejournal.
I remember when reddit was the “ugly digg clone” and then digg disappeared lol.
Anyone who cared probably already moved on, they’re probably not making a close enough experience to the original for anyone who was truly seeking the nostalgia, and they’re probably not fulfilling the privacy/anti-corporate/small community benefits of lemmy/mastodon, and so far there’s not any kind of innovative hook.
Who is this for?
We’re building a human-first community platform that places authentic community and connection at the forefront.
The ruins of Digg’s entire modern reputation is that they were the website that didn’t respect their users and went under as a result, on what reputational foundation can anyone trust them to fulfill this? If anything, I’m concerned we’re going to see next generation astroturfing and corporate censorship, and nothing more. There’s basically no reason to join this except to claim all the top mod positions on uncreated subreddits.
It seems like all of the “subreddits” are predetermined for now?
There is a leaderboard system that boosts the users who post the most “dugg” articles, comments and are early on “dugg” articles. Idk what any of this means.
The other issue is that it appears they use bots to moderate the community.
You’re probably right about it being a corporate poster board but it might be worth agitating to see how the site reacts.
Edit: if they do act with censorship it could create a vacuum situation in which you could funnel users over here.
If you think that is a valuable use of your time you do you, but I’m not going to go to Digg
I said you definitely shouldn’t
