Is it me or is the site dead. Posts are from December?
this post was submitted on 14 Jan 2026
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This is like the 3rd time digg is trying to exist.
4th, really: Popular Digg, the version that drove people to Reddit (which they labeled as v4), whatever it languished as after that and before now where I think users could only comment, and the new site that just went live.
Is mrbabyman back?
You mean the digg everyone ditched for reddit when they went insane? That digg?
I think some people don't even realize that digg used to be way more popular than that very basic reddit thingy nobody used.
Digg was started before reddit and I think reddit took the upvote idea and went with it. When digg switch to the new layout and then to the news only crap everyone went to reddit like I hope everyone will to the fedeverse. I use to watch the Screensavers and was there when Kevin Rose came on.
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Would instances federate if Digg would implement the Lemmy protocol?
Yeah… no. None of that sounds appealing.
‘Curbing toxicity with AI’ means a bot is going to ban you because it doesn’t recognise sarcasm.
And ‘new tech to verify your identity’ sounds like a privacy violation at best.
‘Verifying that you own a product before they let you post in its community’ is a complete lack of understanding of how people use places like this.
Digg can fuck right off.
Yeah, the verifying that you own a product thing is so dumb.
"Hey community. I'm thinking about purchasing , but I wanted to know if it can do X, Y, and Z."
"your post has been deleted because you have not proven that you own ."
Wow, it's like they made Reddit even worse.
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Fuck all of these silicon valley parasites.
Even before they maximize revenue and as a result enshitify the site, the government and monied interests will have or be able to get their hooks in them, to influence moderation, visibility, allowing influence ops now going nuclear with government connected ones utilizing the cutting edge chat bots, along with agents and bots. Some half of all interactions are fake as such now they think.
We need to make federated social media a thing. Like this, but better instances making it more usable to get tje critical mass of users.
Plus, Rose suggests Digg could use signals acquired from mobile devices to help verify members — for instance, the app could identify when Digg users attended a meetup in the same location.
Maybe I'm being paranoid, but this does not sound like a good thing for privacy.
You are absolutely right about that. Passively detecting your location? Fuck that. We are getting into an era where bots are overwhelming and user verification is a valid topic to discuss. I think additional device permissions can be one element in that discussion. But this idea he popped off the dome is a miserable example of such.
"Hi! We've just noticed there are 2 other members of d/footfettish next to you, go say hi!"
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The only Reddit alt I need is Lemmy.
I'm starting to agree. Was a bit quiet and every other post oddly seemed to be about Linux when I first signed up, but now I really like it. I've decided to stay.
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Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.
I was interested for like 15-20 seconds until I realized I have this place now and I actually don't give an exploding flying fuck