Isn't it wild how when a traditional social media terminally enshittifies and a mastodon alternative is poised to take over, there's always a new VC-backed alternative popping up? Happened with Xitter/Mastodon/Bsky, now with Reddit/Lemmy/Digg
this post was submitted on 10 Mar 2025
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I really hope digg turns out to be shit.
Oh, it will
I’m reasonably certain they’re missing some internal revenue targets because advertisers are expressing concern on where their ads are showing up.
Reddit thinks they need to censor the “front page”; as this is where the vast majority of users are. If you saw the their commentary around their earnings, they said they were struggling to convert unsubscribed users to subscribed users, meaning most of their monthly active users aren’t curating their feeds.
So as a result they’re policing people’s ability to get “inappropriate things” (see: wrongthink) to the front page.
Unfortunately what this is likely to mean is that users who have commitment to Reddit leave, while low-commitment users stay.
Given that the majority of comment is low-effort memes anyway, I’d say Reddit don’t mind if the “smarter” users leave.
It'd be a shame if more people switched from Chrome to Firefox with UBlock ad blocker...
As one of the reddit comments put it, its not that they are just banning upvotes, they are leaving the posts to ban trap anyone who dares go against, so lick my taint Spez. I mean hi lemmy community!
Welcome to Lemmy, here are a few pointers to help you settle in
Welcome to Lemmy! Hope you like it here.
I was very surprised at how quick I transferred everything over, the only thing really missing are my custom feeds I made, would love to see a BlueSky-like keyword feed system on here, or something similar.
Lemmy development can be somewhat slow due to having only three developers in the core team, but they are aware of people wanting custom feed/community options
Those who can afford to should consider donating to support development too.
Reddit can eat shit and die for all I care. After they killed 3rd party apps they signed their slow decline, I wish it was faster tbh.
After Reddit started banning mods that protested the changes by temporarily shutting down subs, I knew people (including myself) were going to slowly start to migrate to other platforms.
I see more mentions of Digg than Lemmy in that thread. Many Redditors still don't know about Lemmy.
I bet this is astroturfed.
It's kinda wild that people think new Digg is going to be any kind of solution or alternative. It's the same shit wrapped in a different package
What is Digg?
Reddit before Reddit. Another community link aggregation site where users would "digg" (upvote) the most interesting stories across a variety of categories. After an unpopular site redesign and a poor algorithm that favored a handful of power users, the userbase left en masse to join the competing platform, Reddit.
In the wake of the entire userbase leaving, Digg turned into some kind of generic curated news site or something, nobody is really sure because nobody went there for like a solid 15 years. Just this month, original Digg co-founder Kevin Rose and Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian purchased Digg back from whoever the hell owned Digg lately intending to once again compete as a Reddit alternative.
The long of it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digg
The short of it: It was a version of reddit before reddit. The owners restructured the site for Digg v4, and when they did, they broke it pretty bad. The users all left and went to reddit, myself included.
It looks like Digg is coming back with Kevin Rose in the driver's seat again, but it might be focused on AI generated articles and whatnot. If that's the case, I'm not interested.
don't go anyway. they burnt us once. they'll do it again
The Reddit alternative from before Reddit was big. At one point they were comparable in size and had a friendly rivalry, I believe in the late 2000s. Digg is no better than Reddit, they have had numerous migrations to Reddit from admin issues, if I remember right.
Give negative rating to the reddit app, too.