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Ask HN: What do you think of the new Digg?

6 pointsLorenDB6 comments

I was invited to the beta the other day. I actually never used the old Digg, but the new Digg seems pretty nice. Almost like Reddit without the toxic people.

Do others have experience with the new Digg? What are your thoughts?

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Interesting, I wasn’t aware Kevin Rose bought it back and teamed up with Alexis Ohanian.

The big question will be if they can avoid the mistakes that were made the first time around, which was putting the investors over the community.

In terms of toxic people, they are nearly always missing when a site is small, especially in a private beta. It’s when a site gets large enough to have the masses there that they almost universally get filled with toxic people. The best thing for the long-term health of any forum is to not get too big.

I’ve been checking in since the paid beta thing before the “official” beta.

It feels pretty generic and empty.

It’s early days, but so far there are no unique features, niche communities, or any other reason for me to go there.

Just few popular links cross posted from other social media sites, people posting about new features they want, and comments about how happy they are to be on something other than Reddit.

I tried to check in again just now but it looks like they dropped support for mobile browsers and push you to download an app instead.

- Classic centralized social media with no story around decentralization or federation

- First-class experience only via walled and gated Google Play and Apple Appstore. They brand as "human first" but it's unclear if it will even be available/supported outside of human-hostile platforms. Looks pretty "corporate first".

- No public API

- No source

- External presence exclusively on: Twitter, Instagram, Youtube, Tiktok

- https://docs.digg.com/privacy

- https://docs.digg.com/terms

Hard pass. The only possibly attractive thing would be the name.

Also - they are (or planning on) using AI moderation. Which imo is far worse than Reddit.

Why is AI moderation worse?

I think federated social media is very neat, and regularly use various platforms across the fediverse. But I get the sense that isn't really seen as a feature for most users, infact it seems many find it to be an extra friction in adopting a platform.

What audience do you think Digg is missing out on by not having federation?

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