I was interested but based on this I’ll think I’ll give it a pass.
I want less AI in my life, not more
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Sooo, Digg started to monetize, Manipulate the feeds for money, allowing Reddit to swoop in and steal their lunch. Doubled down as the platform emptied, now 15 years later, they say Trust me, Bro?
They are going to use Ai to moderate, lol... That will be fun to watch.
i wonder if it could be tricked into banning wrong people
It won’t get a chance; I'm not making an account.
It already sucks, I did the beta and it started to suck then. Now I cannot login because their login method sucks. I am done. I am happy on Lemmy.
We're being asked to trust the same guy who somehow managed to enshittify his original site even faster than reddit.... lol
It could also do other things, like require that people who join a product-focused community verify they actually own or use the product being discussed there.
As an example, a community for Oura ring owners could verify that everyone who posts has proven they own one of the smart rings.
You've got to be fucking kidding me
Is mrbabyman back?
It started out enshittified, ai automod will take down your posts/comments for anything inappropriate like saying shit or fuck. No what the fucks on digg. They may have fixed it temporarily since ppl were complaining.
Idk, the moment they swapped the shovel and tombstone for basic triangle upvote/downvotes I knew it was going to be corporate slop for the general public.
It started enshittified
It's a venture capital company, what else could you expect
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Would instances federate if Digg would implement the Lemmy protocol?
Wow, I can't wait to never use that and forget all about it.
I will never return to walled garden internet. You burned all your good will by being greedy and horrible.
Walled gardens go against the spirit of the Internet, anyway.
The company that enshittified itself to the point where all it's users left is back and already well down the enshittification road again? Okay. I guess I know that now.
Is it me or is the site dead. Posts are from December?
Digg dug its own grave.
I can hear this image.
Ahh that brings back memories. First video game I ever played. :)
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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?
You can sign up for an account now on browser. You can only log in with an email. They send you a confirmation code to your email that you have to put in, in order to log in. Once you do this, you can create your username (which is tied to an email). This is probably to stop people from using throwaway accounts to log in.
So far I like Lemmy more but I'll scope it out to see what happens next.
I tried switching to desktop mode on my phone and it switched back to mobile during the last step and gave me a 404 error. I don't use a PC.
So oh well.
it doesn’t work without an app.
You can't use it in a browser? Does that mean that you can't use it on a PC?
Sorry, I meant mobile browser. I don't use a PC.
I use mobile browser in "desktop mode" for stuff like this.
Tried that. During the last step it switches back to mobile mode and gives a 404 error.
I just made an account to see and it seems to be working on a desktop for me.
i'm talking out of my ass right now but I assume they will get better revenue using an app to show ads and collect info
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We left Digg for Reddit about 20 years ago because of enshitification, the same way we left Reddit for the Fediverse recently, there is no way I am going back to Digg!
No but this time will be different I'm sure!! I'm sure they've learned their lessons from their past mistakes. Trust me on this... I'm a dolphin
Mistakes may happen, but I'm sure they won't do any evil shit on porpoise.
I specifically remember the exodus from DIGG as the start of reddit sucking.
Sorry
-A Slashdot to Digg to Lemmy refugee
When was that? Based on life events I've reconstructed this timeline of my hangout sites
- late 1990s to mid 2000s was slahdot
- around 2006ish digg came into my life and was great for a some years. At least for memes and generic dopamining on funny pictures. I think I hung around until about 2014 or so, while spicing it up with cracked.com
- 2014ish 9GAG started having more of my type of content. After a few years 9GAG became just automated reposts of r/funny, and talking about that got you censored. Kinda like what reddit is doing now.
- 2017ish I switched to reddit, when 9GAG just became too embarrassingly bad.
- july 21st 2023 I started trying to figure out lemmy. BTW u/spez is a pedophile piss baby.
Maybe I was just trailing behind you others. Was I the one to ruin your experience? Why would you accuse me of that you insensitive clod? Anyway, in that case I'll go eat crayons in the corner and shitpost on .ml
Interesting, I had my 9GAG phase around 2011-12. Never really used Digg, just saw the front page a couple times, then started dabbling in Reddit in 2015, then Lemmy in 2023 with the blackout protests. (I almost said those achieved nothing, but I think that's probably when most current Lemmy users joined, so 🤷)
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