Lots of venture capital money behind it. I wonder how quickly the enshitification will begin.
This is a rerun, and the fediverse is better
Yeah… no. None of that sounds appealing.
‘Curbing toxicity with AI’ means a bot is going to ban you because it doesn’t recognise sarcasm.
And ‘new tech to verify your identity’ sounds like a privacy violation at best.
‘Verifying that you own a product before they let you post in its community’ is a complete lack of understanding of how people use places like this.
Digg can fuck right off.
Yeah, the verifying that you own a product thing is so dumb.
“Hey <insert product> community. I’m thinking about purchasing <insert product>, but I wanted to know if it can do X, Y, and Z.”
“your post has been deleted because you have not proven that you own <insert product>.”
Wow, it’s like they made Reddit even worse.
Conceptually what does this offer that the fediverse/threadiverse/lemmy/piefed doesn’t?
What then does it say about the actual value of this company and others like it?
If you want a hypercurated/focused reddit experience just join metafilter.
Somehow I don’t get the feeling the owners of Digg are going to be happy with the level of income Metafilter brings in to its owners however…
“We kind of opted for … let’s just keep building this plane as we fly it,” explained Digg CEO Justin Mezzell. “That means that it’s going to be very lightweight, and we’re just going to be aggressively shipping every week and just giving them new features as we go,” he added.
camera slowly pans and zooms out to the Fediverse where mint condition airplanes can be seen everywhere with the word FREE on them
Conceptually what does this offer that the fediverse/threadiverse/lemmy/piefed doesn’t?
Brand name; the simplicity of just going to a site and register instead of choosing an instance; algorithmic creation most likely.
Well, actual users and niche communities that get more than 3 responses max might be one thing it offers.
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’re banking on AI as a competitive advantage but also, here’s why it’s bad” is quite a business strategy
I really wanted to like it, but it’s already a right-wing cesspit. 🤷♂️ Maaaaaybe it’ll improve, now that it’s public, but I don’t have high hopes.
I know this place is just the opposite kind of echo chamber, but when the other option is being beaten over the head with transphobia and Maga shit, ehh, I’ll take it.
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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.
Not banning good people, banning wrong people.
I’m a little half and half on it. A lot of people like myself are fed up with the obsessive way AI is pushed into everything, but I can see it having uses.
For instance, sifting through 20,000 “This user didn’t accept my argument evidence” reports to find some that have merit; that can be worthwhile, even if all it does is alert a human to take a look and make a full judgment. Besides, the bar for quality moderators on sites like Reddit is low.
Let’s also remember that AI has many different meanings. It depends on what technology they’re using. AI is just literally a type of computer program that can be used for a variety of things.
They already do on Reddit…
I dug Digg once upon a time. When they tried to undermine the power users, I found Reddit. Then Reddit enshittified. Now I got Lemmy. It’s where I want to be. No company behind it, milking the users.
Oh look, another centralized social media site owned by tech bros!
Ooohhh a venture capitalist social media platform! I wonder how and in how many overly creative and putrid ways that site will try and fuck me over, inside and out.
Yeah, hells no
Wasn’t a lot of their tomfoolery why people relocated to Reddit to begin with?
It’s the same as here, and Reddit. All these sites are the same.
Lemmy has VC funding?
I actually think the lack of funding means Lemmy doesnt have the same incentives to enshitify itself.
Someone will have to let me know because I’m not wasting my time there. I’m going to keep wasting my time here. It’s a fantastic waste of time
This is like the 3rd time digg is trying to exist.
4th, really: Popular Digg, the version that drove people to Reddit (which they labeled as v4), whatever it languished as after that and before now where I think users could only comment, and the new site that just went live.
I will never return to walled garden internet. You burned all your good will by being greedy and horrible.
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.
Fediverse ftw
I wonder how quickly the enshitification will begin.
Lots of venture capital money behind it.
It already began.
Yeah, the moment it came into existence it was shit.
