Sounds like an unholy wedding of AI and privacy nightmare to me.
this post was submitted on 14 Jan 2026
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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!
If I ever find myself there I'll just digg my way back to Lemmy
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
What? Where? Nice!
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
Oh I want those things too. The current size of Lemmy is not my ideal. It's just really really nice in its current form for me as a unique little nerdy place hidden in plain sight from what most of the internet has become.
It was more the juxtaposition of how the world needs all these open technologies that people band together to create for the good of all, buuuuut if nobody notices this particular one then that will serve my personal interests. And to be clear I'm not hoping for that or trying to hold it back. Just pointing it out. :)
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
"We are good to users, there is absolutely not a 2nd step here that we've done before"
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.
How low are we talking?
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.
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.
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I will never return to walled garden internet. You burned all your good will by being greedy and horrible.
Walled gardens go against the spirit of the Internet, anyway.
Wow, I can't wait to never use that and forget all about it.
We're being asked to trust the same guy who somehow managed to enshittify his original site even faster than reddit.... lol
It could also do other things, like require that people who join a product-focused community verify they actually own or use the product being discussed there.
As an example, a community for Oura ring owners could verify that everyone who posts has proven they own one of the smart rings.
You've got to be fucking kidding me
I was interested but based on this I’ll think I’ll give it a pass.
I want less AI in my life, not more
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!
No but this time will be different I'm sure!! I'm sure they've learned their lessons from their past mistakes. Trust me on this... I'm a dolphin
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Figured I'd sign up to preserve my username just in case, but it doesn't work without an app. Oh well.
These sites are supposed to be gateways to the internet. Why the fuck would you put that in any app other than a browser?
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The company that enshittified itself to the point where all it's users left is back and already well down the enshittification road? Okay. I guess I know that now.
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