Digg’s officially launched now for about a month and it’s… really underwhelming.
The “Most Dugg” posts by upvotes as of this post:
+110, +107, +89, +86, +84, +84, +79, +79 (roughly in the last 24 hours)
As compared to Lemmy/Piefed/Mbin as seen on Lemmy.world (Top in last 24 hours):
+1.22k, +952, +855, +751, +669, +646, +620, +612
That’s really poor from Digg honestly.
I’m surprised they’re not just lying on their metrics and vote counts tbh
They wanna differenciate themselves from reddit ;)
And then I found out: The cohost of Diggnation is Alex Albrecht. His father is a fellow at the Heritage Foundation and one of the authors of Project 2025.
This is really good to know. Are you aware if this has ever been addressed by them or anyone else ever?
I understand how probable things can be, but good lord, I would be so aggravated if people judged me based on my father’s politics
Heard of digg, tried it, huge NFT and ai thumpers there. Wouldn’t recommend
I honestly haven’t even gone to look at it yet. I’m totally satisfied with Lemmy, why bother?
Because if something exists in a vacuum, without challenge, then theres no motivation for betterment and no repercussions for enshitification.
Are you just suggesting Lemmy needs competition? It has plenty of competition with PieFed and Mbin. Also in a way, every instance is competing with the others. Especially when talking about enshitification, the competition of instances is a big deal. Even if the software goes bad, good instances can just stay on the old good version, and fork it together.
It’s interesting hearing “There’s nothing on Digg it’s dead, fediverse is more active” because when I joined Lemmy people were using the same comparison of reddit vs the fediverse. Things take time to build and they are still in beta. Lemmy is way more active and settled than when I first joined (hell I originally joined kbin instead). It’s good to have competition. I am active on both and I believe they will have different demographics.
My niche community already works better on digg
Some things will definitely work better over there.
You’d think this was a safe prediction, yet here we are.
Better to close the doors and redo it before ending up like reddit. In reddit’s case they welcome it.
Keeping in mind that I didn’t use Digg much back in the day, I don’t really understand the idea of re-launching a service that fell out of use in the first place.
Or if MySpace (etc) was to relaunch with modern features, could it expect to succeed out of nostalgia, or something…?
Nostalgia and hoping to grab users as they abandon reddit, which is where the users originally moved in the first place.
