Digg 2.0 is explicitly designed to be worse though, with crypto. And it has zero cachet with younger folks. Who the fuck is taking that seriously? Does anyone actually genuinely believe that digg is going to turn into anything but a pump and dump in the extremely remote chance that it does achieve a userbase that's bigger than Lemmy?

[–] Irelephant@lemm.ee 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Oh, and ai doing almost all moderation.

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 month ago

That's going to be such a shitshow x)

[–] Nougat@fedia.io 15 points 1 month ago

I’m gonna go with “Digg 2.0 will be late stage Reddit from the jump.”

Remember how Digg failed because they were doing the exact same things that Reddit has done? Heavy-handed moderation, playing games with boosting some content and pushing other content down, power users, UI changes that nobody asked for.

Why anyone would think “it’ll be different this time” is beyond me.

[–] coldsideofyourpillow@lemmy.cafe 11 points 1 month ago

No.

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 month ago

Thanks for sharing

[–] shittydwarf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 month ago

Sweet summer child

[–] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Has any internet company came back to relevance after burned out?

Edit: maybe Twitch? That was Justin.tv and rebranded for gaming streaming, but can't think of any other.