What's the point of this when Fediverse is technologically superior?
this post was submitted on 14 Jan 2026
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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.
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Again? This is like the 8th time they have announced this in the last 10 years.
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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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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
it was the OG reddit, before reddit took over.
Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.
Is it federated?
I got about a quarter way through the article before realizing that I don’t care in the slightest.
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.
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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.
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...
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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.
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If I ever find myself there I'll just digg my way back to Lemmy