Digg is back in business as a new Reddit-style alternative community platform
The once popular crowdsourced content platform Digg is making a big public comeback as an open beta, relaunching as a community platform with a clear Reddit-style approach. The new version is led by Digg founder Kevin Rose and Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian, signaling a strong commitment to building a major alternative to Reddit. Users can access both a redesigned website and mobile app, supporting feeds that aggregate posts from various communities.
Digg now allow users join communities, post links and comments, and upvote content, now called “diggs.” At launch, the platform features 21 general interest communities covering topics such as science, technology, gaming, entertainment, and humor. Anyone may sign up and create their own community, though current limitations restrict each community to a single manager.
Digg is also emphasizing anti bot measures to reduce manipulation, including potential proof of ownership for hardware focused communities. CEO Justin Mezzell says the team plans to ship new features weekly. The relaunch includes an AI generated daily recap podcast called Digg Daily, and the company says it may add human hosts based on user feedback.
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External links
- Digg Public Beta Is LiveDigg • Official source
- Digg is back as its founder teams up with Reddit co-founderAndroid Headlines
- Digg and Reddit creators relaunch Digg to compete with Reddit9to5Mac
- Digg is back from the grave (again) and taking on Reddit | MashableMashable
- Digg launches its new Reddit rival to the publicTechCrunch
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Another echo chamber in the making ....
I dont think I trust the man who made a failed social media site and the man who contributed to one of the biggest echo chambers on the internet to team up and make something that wont immediately enshittify when they have the chance. Maayyyyyybe we shouldnt give our data to the next silicon valley startup whos website looks like a mix of twitter and reddit. Also Ohanian invests in companies that try to change the genes of babies and give parents the ability to screen for "undesirable traits" (in all fairness, this can also be used to detect diseases, but do you REALLY believe thats their only goal here?), which doesnt make me trust his moral compass enough to make him able to moderate the site and not pull a cambridge analytica.
If they can prevent Circle Jerking and keep Hate off the platform, I'm in!
The whole upvote downvote thing on Reddit is why Reddit communities are awful. Big mistake to even add upvoting. It just draws in people who pretend to know more than they do and encourages rudeness for sake of a false sense of popularity.
Well what it does is indirectly forces you to say things that the majority of users on that subreddit agree with. If you have a differing opinion and you get a lower than -5 score or so it hides your comment by default meaning people are less likely to see your opinion. Really a dumb system.
This is why almost every sub on Reddit is an echo chamber.
Reddit doesn't encourage discussion; it encourages circle jerking. Plain and simple.
A little note I enjoy the irony of me being upvoted. I also gave myself an up vote. Some people on Reddit make alto accounts just to up their own posts.