interface is cleaner than Reddit (some people will probably complain about the space wasted, even in "compact" mode, but most users should be fine)
there is only a handful of communities existing at the moment, and no option to create more. See picture for the list.
feature-wise, it looks very similar to Reddit/Lemmy/Piefed: upvotes/downvotes, comments, sort types

Based on what happened with Twitter, Bluesky and Mastodon, we can probably imagine that Digg might be a new actor that quite a few people will join, when the people the most aware of enshittification of corporate platforms will stay on Lemmy/Mbin/Piefed

Random thought: maybe a "lifestyle" community could be a way to encompass a few communities that struggle to stay active

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[–] Skavau@piefed.social 19 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Is Digg committing itself to the concept of community moderation by volunteers with large amounts of autonomy, or is it going down an AI-route?

[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago

I'm sure we can guess correctly at this one.

[–] Blaze@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

There's at least an AI tl:dr below each post, not sure about the moderation.

[–] Skavau@piefed.social 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

To me, if it doesn't have the basic users running communities foundation of Reddit and the Fediverse - it just isn't a Reddit alternative. Communities would be more like hashtags.

[–] Blaze@lemmy.zip 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Sidebar of a community

I guess they plan to have user-managed communities later, otherwise indeed they wouldn't be able to compete with Reddit

[–] Skavau@piefed.social 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Having a "Top Contributors" section on the sidebar is already putting up red flags to me, to be honest.

[–] Agent_Karyo@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

I find the badges on reddit (I still use it for some niche gaming communities and r/tycoon) very annoying. We want organic engagement, not a skinner box.

[–] favoredponcho@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

The operators basically said they want AI to do moderation because that's the boring and shitty part of being a volunteer. They would rather have community volunteers focus on building the community.

[–] Skavau@piefed.social 1 points 1 month ago

That still in part requires moderation tools for purposes of curation.