Digg, a reboot of an earlier social news site, is now relaunching as a Reddit competitor focused on communities.
        • OpenStars@piefed.socialEnglish
          5·
          29 days ago

          PieFed has features that even Reddit lacks, like combining together comments across all cross-posts (and plans to tweak that still further, like add the ability to a community to opt-out of it, though I find that it helps with community discovery).

          • BingBong@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            5·
            29 days ago

            Federation means the fundamental infrastructure and dependencies are entirely different. Even if the interface may feel similar to you.

            • rudyharrelson@lemmy.radioEnglish
              1·
              29 days ago

              Even if the interface may feel similar to you.

              I would say it’s more than just the interface that makes Lemmy similar to Reddit. To end users, they are virtually identical services in terms of functionality. Link aggregators with built-in community forums. I think it’s fair to call Lemmy a federated Reddit clone. Not to suggest Reddit invented any of the aforementioned features, just that Lemmy’s implementation of said features is in many ways identical to Reddit’s approach because it was meant to be a Reddit alternative for the fediverse.

              Even the official Lemmy git repository compares the project to Reddit:

              Lemmy is similar to sites like Reddit, Lobste.rs, or Hacker News: you subscribe to forums you’re interested in, post links and discussions, then vote, and comment on them.

          • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.worldEnglish
            5·
            29 days ago

            I literally got banned from reddit 2 years ago, and searched “reddit clone”. Found Lemmy, and here I am.

  • pelespirit@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    12·
    29 days ago

    No

    They’re betting that AI can help to address some of the messiness and toxicity of today’s social media landscape. At the same time, social platforms will need a new set of tools to ensure they’re not taken over by AI bots posing as people.

    “We obviously don’t want to force everyone down some kind of crazy KYC process,” said Rose in an interview with TechCrunch, referring to the “know your customer” verification process used by financial institutions to confirm someone’s identity.

  • pedz@lemmy.caEnglish
    7·
    29 days ago

    The company, which is today back under the ownership of its original founder, Kevin Rose, along with Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian, is launching its open beta to the public

    Huh. I assumed Rose would still be behind stuff like this, but didn’t expect Ohanian.

    I’m a ‘Digg refugee’ that fled to Reddit around 2009, I think? I knew Digg from Rose, because I was watching Tech TV and The Screen Savers, around 2002.

    Anyway I turned my back on Digg when Rose sold out and I’m also going to avoid his new attempt at money making with an AI thingy.

    Digg is dead and is gonna stay dead to me. I don’t want its rotting dug up reanimated corpse with a sticker saying “now powered by AI!”

    EDIT: Coming to think about it, Tech TV turning into G4 might have been an early form of enshittificarion.

    • vulgarcynic@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2·
      29 days ago

      That edit hits like a brick. I think about techtv a couple times a year. What an interesting convergence of old media and the first stages of new media.