Digg is back to take on Reddit, and you can use it now— There's some new competition for 'the front page of the internet'.

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kaesylvri@reddit

No it's not. This is the third artificial glaze job attempt with Digg in the last two weeks.

It's not a viable alternative. It doesn't have the trust, traffic or grip. It died in pre-beta when the creators basically revealed that they were all-in on the AI automoderation and 'algorithmic adjustments' nonsense.

Look at the front page. <50 interacts on most posts, and you look at the comments and it's the kind of milquetoast-chat you'd see at an HR convention.

It's the same non-starter it was last year.

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Competitive_Let5062@reddit

I want the recent non-Rose Digg back!!

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owzleee@reddit

Agree. Signed up when it was anounced it hasn’t got better. Maybe when Christian releases the new app it’ll get some traction but it feels like a wasteland at the moment.

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Neuro_Skeptic@reddit

Digg is dead. All Reddit alternatives are dead.

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tunachilimac@reddit

It was dead to me when they announced working with Sam Altman’s worldcoin and their plans to give you elevated posting privileges if you go scan your biometrics for Altman’s company to trade your data for some wordcoin tokens.

It’s not an attempt to be a site for humans. It’s an attempt to harvest as much data as the can for AI purposes.

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leorolim@reddit

Can I be a mod if I let them scan my butt hole?

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kaesylvri@reddit

Ho damn, I had no idea that was happening.

That's shady af. Like, the dirty nasty vile level of shady.

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1-760-706-7425@reddit

But, how else are you going to monetize the Ultra-Poors^(TM)? 👉👈🥺

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Blarghnog@reddit

Came here to say almost exactly this. Digg is a failure because they haven’t learned a damn thing since the last time they did Digg.

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leorolim@reddit

Tell me I didn't spend 17 years on reddit just to go back to digg. 😆

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randomthrowaway8993@reddit

I remember when people fled digg in droves to come to reddit, and left it a shell of what it once was.

Looks like they're desperately trying to turn the tables 15+ years later. Good luck with that.

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_haha_oh_wow_@reddit

You should branch out and try different websites. I've been on Lemmy since the API debacle, reminds me of pre-digg reddit kinda.

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aVarangian@reddit

does it still look like sh[hit].reddit instead of old.reddit?

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Qwirk@reddit

sh[hit].reddit, should have an old option.

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Slight_Ad5318@reddit

i can't even login without downloading their shitty app. Pass.

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JohnRyan1234567@reddit

We don't require login. just post without account.Anonyway

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CptHammer_@reddit

Really? I guess the site it too technical for you. I was able to log in and didn't even know there was an app. I only discovered it because of a post on /digg where people were complaining about how poor the app UI was compared to the desktop version. My response was, "there's an app?".

Poor me making everything a PWA instead of a bookmark at home and doing the same on my phone so the experience is always the same.

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Slight_Ad5318@reddit

I could be wrong. But I don't see a login button unless I enable desktop mode. And last time I logged in with desktop mode to login, once I switched back to mobile it promoted me to download an app to do anything useful.

Am I missing something?

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CptHammer_@reddit

once I switched back to mobile

Why would you do that? This sounds like a browser problem. Perhaps change your user agent. Maybe I'm taking my technical skills for granted. I can't fathom why someone would use the mobile version of a website for anything but read only widgets. When I set one up as a widget it opens the page in a normal browser when I interact, with extremely small exceptions to the point I forget that some mobile view websites can do limited things.

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Slight_Ad5318@reddit

I'm happy you like it. 🙄

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DoINeedChains@reddit

There is zero chance I will ever give a Kevin Rose associated social media site another minute of my time.

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MondoDismordo@reddit

Lost opportunity... sad.

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videookayy@reddit

Hey 5 karma bucks says they incorporate Ai into digg.

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busymom0@reddit

They already did. Moderation is by AI

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darthlincoln01@reddit

I don't get it. I really don't. If they're trying to capture an "old reddit" kind of feel, they're doing a very bad job when I'm presented with a "new reddit" design.

Maybe there's a more compact and functional design hidden somewhere, but I'm sure as hell not going to look around to find it.

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busymom0@reddit

It looks like Facebook

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cyrilio@reddit

I made an account a while ago and checked it out couple times that week. It covers basically non of the topics/subreddits I'm interested in. Only mainstream stuff. I specifically unsubscribed from those on here because most of them are trash anyway.

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SmileyBMM@reddit

Tried it out, it sucks. Clearly designed to be a tech product to gain investor interest instead of being a good platform to use. I'll stick with what I currently use.

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TestingTehWaters@reddit

No thanks

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barrygateaux@reddit

Article reads like it's a "how to use an internet forum" but for morons. A bell icon means you've got a notification. You can reply to other people's posts. lmfao

I leant nothing about the new dig. What's its culture? What did the writer's experience of using it? Would they recommend it? What are the plans for the future?

And reddit stopped using "front page of the internet" back in 23. Whole article is probably chat gpt.

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kju@reddit

News aggregation shouldn't have a culture inherent, users make the culture, preferably without censoring anything unless illegal or directly harmful

They should tell about their experience though

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barrygateaux@reddit

I meant culture In the sense of "is it friendly?" Cliquey Aggressive?". Any group of humans will have a culture because it's our thing.

the new dig's been running for a while already while they tested it so it's not a blank slate.

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