I think the hype is propped up by money and astroturfing, I don't expect it will last

Keeping in mind that I didn't use Digg much back in the day, I don't really understand the idea of re-launching a service that fell out of use in the first place.

Or if MySpace (etc) was to relaunch with modern features, could it expect to succeed out of nostalgia, or something..?

I'm surprised they're not just lying on their metrics and vote counts tbh

And then I found out: The cohost of Diggnation is Alex Albrecht. His father is a fellow at the Heritage Foundation and one of the authors of Project 2025.

Oh right, I forgot I had a Digg account. It's so boring and non-consequential I really forgot that I signed up back before the beta came out. I just spent a couple minutes looking at it and there is so little interesting content it's embarrassing. I don't know if it's being sanitized but there is literally nothing interesting there.

I honestly haven't even gone to look at it yet. I'm totally satisfied with Lemmy, why bother?

Isn't the new Digg significantly younger though?

Fuck Digg fuck Reddit

Heard of digg, tried it, huge NFT and ai thumpers there. Wouldn’t recommend

I totally forgot about that.

I was here when lemmy was mostly reposts of reddit shit. Now we've grown so much

It’s interesting hearing “There’s nothing on Digg it’s dead, fediverse is more active” because when I joined Lemmy people were using the same comparison of reddit vs the fediverse. Things take time to build and they are still in beta. Lemmy is way more active and settled than when I first joined (hell I originally joined kbin instead). It’s good to have competition. I am active on both and I believe they will have different demographics.

Despite that my niche community is doing better on digg with the same level of effort

Good!

*actively stirs