Is it federated?
this post was submitted on 14 Jan 2026
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They’re betting that AI can help to address some of the messiness and toxicity of today’s social media landscape. At the same time, social platforms will need a new set of tools to ensure they’re not taken over by AI bots posing as people.
"We're banking on AI as a competitive advantage but also, here's why it's bad" is quite a business strategy
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What's the point of this when Fediverse is technologically superior?
Very rarely is superior tech remotely a factor in how good a product is or how well it's received.
I think all of these platfroms live from the engagement of the users there. I like Lemmy, but I'm also still on Reddit, because in some communities, there's just so much more activity on Reddit than in the same community here.
Technology, UI and everything is fine and important. But if the place seems rather dead it will also struggle to attract new users.
This, I follow a single Reddit sub on RSS because it just doesn't exist on Lemmy 🤷 And in general, communities for many niche topics or smaller countries are nonexistent. But the conversations are much better here, so I hang out more on Lemmy nowadays :)
Superior technology does not necessarily mean a superior product. History has plenty of examples where the inferior technology won out because the majority of people don't care about having the best or most advanced technology, they want the easiest, cheapest and (most importantly) lowest effort.
To be clear, I don't think digg is a superior product either, I'm just saying that how good the tech is matters far less than people want to believe. What truly matters is the implementation.
Reddit was the Digg replacement.
Reddit existed long before Digg died, and was so much better before the Digg refugees streamed in.
oh how the turn tables
EDIT: Thanks for the gold, kind stranger!
EDIT: Thanks for the gold, kind stranger!
shudder
How to get PTSD flashbacks in an instant.
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Look at that, Digg-ing up the corpse of a horse just to beat it more.
I got about a quarter way through the article before realizing that I don’t care in the slightest.
Ooohhh a venture capitalist social media platform! I wonder how and in how many overly creative and putrid ways that site will try and fuck me over, inside and out.
Yeah, hells no
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Fediverse ftw
We left Digg for Reddit, then they enshitified Reddit so we went to the fediverse and now they want to bring Digg back. The turd just circles the toilet bowl endlessly.
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I really wanted to like it, but it's already a right-wing cesspit. 🤷♂️ Maaaaaybe it'll improve, now that it's public, but I don't have high hopes.
I know this place is just the opposite kind of echo chamber, but when the other option is being beaten over the head with transphobia and Maga shit, ehh, I'll take it.
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Conceptually what does this offer that the fediverse/threadiverse/lemmy/piefed doesn't?
What then does it say about the actual value of this company and others like it?
If you want a hypercurated/focused reddit experience just join metafilter.
Somehow I don't get the feeling the owners of Digg are going to be happy with the level of income Metafilter brings in to its owners however....
“We kind of opted for … let’s just keep building this plane as we fly it,” explained Digg CEO Justin Mezzell. “That means that it’s going to be very lightweight, and we’re just going to be aggressively shipping every week and just giving them new features as we go,” he added.
camera slowly pans and zooms out to the Fediverse where mint condition airplanes can be seen everywhere with the word FREE on them
Well, actual users and niche communities that get more than 3 responses max might be one thing it offers.
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