This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
However, the rise of AI has presented an opportunity to rebuild Digg, Rose and Ohanian believe, leading them to acquire Digg last March through a leveraged buyout by True Ventures, Ohanian’s firm Seven Seven Six, Rose and Ohanian themselves, and the venture firm S32. The company has not disclosed its funding.
May as well get the shovel already.
Again? This is like the 8th time they have announced this in the last 10 years.
I highly doubt anyone on the fediverse will migrate from here to there. Perhaps Digg wants Redditors to switch over to them? I don't really understand who this is for.
I see they’re making a play for that sweet “I liked this before it went public and got enshittified so I’m gonna switch to this other one that hasn’t gone public and gotten enshittified yet and hope it gets popular enough that it goes public and gets enshittified” cash.
This has all the markings of more VC AI garbage. Hopefully it does pull some users away from Reddit just to break up the centralization a little bit more, but overall I don't see what the appeal is supposed to be.
I'll stick with the fediverse.
Digg is coming back?
Whats next?
Fark?
Rotten. com?
Fark never went away. I still browse daily.
Yeah, me too. Never made an account, but the headlines still give me a chuckle.
It's Digg, don't bother with them.
Clicked around...looks like every corpo site out there. Im not sure what this gives other than yet another place to talk about very general subjects.
I just dont see the appeal to be honest. At least with the fedi, we can chose what our joinable communities look like. This just looks like yet another "app". With a never ending feed...
It's gonna be enshittified from the get go. Reddit grew organically then enshittifed over time. Creating a new platform backed by VC in this day and age is guaranteed to be immediately bad.
I left Digg 15 years ago. I'm surprised it's still around.
I've only heard about it since in this way, some quick announcement about the "new Digg". And, then, nothing.
Reddit banned me for saying "see a Nazi, punch a Nazi." There's no way I'm going to bother with Digg, that's the past, and I have no doubt they'd sooner than later be the same as Reddit in that regard.
I was gonna give it a chance back when they were letting people reserve their usernames. When the site first went live (in beta, I guess?) they wanted me to pay them money to gain access. Enshittification is baked into the platform.
