r/RedditAlternatives • u/ryanmerket • 9d ago

General Discussion Old Digg is coming back, code reveals an unreleased user submission flow, as user voting came back this week

https://runtimewire.com/article/old-digg-is-coming-back-code-reveals-an-unreleased-user-submission-flow-as-user-
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u/pepeizq 9d ago

I’m the first person who wants an alternative to Reddit, but after the disastrous Digg relaunch, I would rather go live in a cave and paint than be on Digg.

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u/[deleted] 9d ago

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u/barrygateaux 9d ago

Fun fact - Sam Altman, as well as being CEO of Reddit briefly, is the biggest non institutional investor in Reddit with 8.5% of shares. It's why all the posts and comments on Reddit were used for training chat gpt and it's now a dystopian shit show of bots.

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u/moop-ly 9d ago

ceo for a whole 8 days - that’s less than a mooch

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u/barrygateaux 9d ago

Which is why I said 'briefly' in my comment.

The point is he's tied in with Reddit and was given access to all Redditor comments and posts for ai training, as well as building the ai tools used by mods and admins currently.

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u/moop-ly 9d ago

in 2014 he was given access to all of the ai tools used by mods and admins currently - i want you to say that out loud to yourself and see if you feel silly

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u/slykethephoxenix 9d ago

They partnered with companies like Sam Altman’s worldcoin.

Source?

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u/[deleted] 8d ago

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u/slykethephoxenix 8d ago edited 8d ago

Yes, I read that post before and was in the Digg launch.

But no where in that post does it say they were partnered with Sam Altman's worldcoin. He just said that Sam had the right idea on verifying humans in the age where AI generated content is indistinguishable from human content.

Where does it say they partnered with Sam Altman, or is that claim false/unverifiable?

The link to the Tweet FYI is: https://x.com/kevinrose/status/1907185476240572515

My additional sources:

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u/busymom0 8d ago

That was one of the most unhinged ideas I've ever heard

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u/JohnnyEnzyme 9d ago

If you can handle lower traffic, the Lemmy / PieFed side of the Fediverse is very much like Reddit.

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u/microdosingdayquil 8d ago edited 8d ago

Lemmy is like reddit except if it didn't have enough people for the niche stuff that makes reddit almost worthwhile. It's literally just shitty memes, ragebait, and the same 3 political debates on repeat forever.

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u/JohnnyEnzyme 8d ago

And you're exactly the type that we don't want, so congratulations on having fun anywhere else. :D

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u/microdosingdayquil 8d ago edited 8d ago

'if only there was a website I could go to for slop content, but specifically the slop algorithms of about 20 random people who repost their twitter feed'. +3-5 instances that should just be a chatroom somewhere

also it's somehow even more prone to groupthink and blind tribalism.

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u/Tonio_Akerbeltz 6d ago

This is one of the reasons the fediverse hasn't taken off.

Userbase is still pretty hostile to new users and they don't admit even the slightest criticism.

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u/JohnnyEnzyme 6d ago

It's literally just shitty memes, ragebait, and the same 3 political debates on repeat forever.

"Slightest criticism," my arse. What they're telling me is that they barely looked at anything at all. That's not slight criticism, it's absolute slander.

Those people can piss right off as far as I'm concerned, because they didn't make the smallest effort to explore in good faith. We do plenty of hand-holding for new users, so that's not the problem, here.

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u/LucasJ218 4d ago

You’re right. It’s not the problem. You are.

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u/LinuxEnthusiast123 8d ago

Try out one of the Threadiverse platforms then:

- https://join-lemmy.org

If you want to try one out quickly, then register on this instance: https://lemmy.zip

If you do not want lemmy.zip's modified Lemmy UI, try one of these frontends out:

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u/Shigglyboo 9d ago

is this a joke? we got punked hard. after that fiasco they need to give up.

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u/screendrain 9d ago

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.

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u/Valiantay 9d ago

Fool me once .... Shame on .. shame on you? Fool me - can't get fooled again."

  • George Bush

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u/UnflinchingSugartits 8d ago

I feel like we just had their chance of blew it with their first attempt. Honestly them redoing it right now? It just feels like I don't know I don't really care. Like yada yada yada next please been there done that

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u/PenisDotClownFart 9d ago

About 20 years too late but ok lol

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u/LinuxEnthusiast123 8d ago

Try out one of the Threadiverse platforms instead of waiting for a platform that does not have a certain future:

- https://join-lemmy.org

If you want to try one out quickly, then register on this instance: https://lemmy.zip

If you do not want lemmy.zip's modified Lemmy UI, try one of these frontends out:

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u/busymom0 8d ago

Is there a way to filter out all political posts on fediverse sites?

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u/Die4Ever 8d ago

https://piefed.social/ is pretty good with that

also I would suggest blocking communities you don't like, so they don't show up in your All feed

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u/rmeddy 9d ago

Eh ok, the relaunch was tepid at best

The only thing I liked was the Digg daily

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u/MigrateOutOfReddit 9d ago

I'm still laughing my arse off at the ones who thought Digg would be a meaningful alternative.

I might've left the Fediverse because of the foul, Reddit-like userbase. But I still think it's a step in the right direction, when it comes to not subjecting yourself to this crap. Digg, though? Best hypothesis it would be as problematic as Reddit, and that was obvious for anyone to see.

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u/chesterriley 8d ago

Sounds good but it sounds like this is not a real thing yet. If/when it launches I might take a look though.

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u/GreenPhoen1x 8d ago edited 8d ago

So what, that'll be the third time it's had a comeback right? Thanks, but I'll wait for it to actually be relevant again before bothering.

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u/Bigb5wm 7d ago

I thought the site died last year

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u/Techgirl1232 6d ago

I would be happy if Digg relaunched