Digg launches its new Reddit rival to the public | TechCrunch
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Digg, a reboot of an earlier social news site, is now relaunching as a Reddit competitor focused on communities.

Lots of venture capital money behind it. I wonder how quickly the enshitification will begin.

  • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    6 months ago

    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.

    “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.

    the camera pans over to the Fediverse where there are mint condition airplanes everywhere with the word FREE on them

    • can@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      6 months ago

      Conceptually what does this offer that the fediverse/threadiverse/lemmy/piefed doesn’t?

      To us? Nothing. To others? A single place to browse and sign up.

    • JayGray91🐉🍕@piefed.socialEnglish
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      6 months ago

      Conceptually what does this offer that the fediverse/threadiverse/lemmy/piefed doesn’t?

      Brand name; the simplicity of just going to a site and register instead of choosing an instance; algorithmic creation most likely.

        • Obinice@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          6 months ago

          Maybe it’s because people drive them away from other spaces by doing things like calling them weird pseudo-slurs like “Normies”, instead of engaging with them as valid human beings with different lives, experiences and interests who don’t always want exactly what we want.

          • zerozaku@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            6 months ago

            Yeah we are not using slurs enough. Other platforms are openly racist and therefore have better user engagement coz it’s “funny” being openly racist.