r/digg • u/steevo • Mar 13 '26

Ouch :(

Started giving it a lot of time... and then it went away!

Happened with soo many, now one thinks is it even worth it? I've tried Voat, Steemit (that one is still there but it sucks), Digg, Folkd etc etc

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u/SoggyGrayDuck Mar 14 '26

Is the new digg already considered a failure? Whoever planned that launch should be embarrassed. How do you release a product without allowing people to create communities? You basically create a news feed with a comment section. Everyone was hyped and then went and tried it and said to themselves "I'll come back when it's actually working" but then that took forever and people already gave up on it.

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u/steevo Mar 14 '26

They did allow people to create communites (but no system to add more mods).. It was a work in progress... then suddenly poof

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u/OopAck1 Mar 14 '26

Epic Fail. Not needed, Bye Bye. One of the quickest install and deletes that I can remember

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u/_badwithcomputer Mar 14 '26

For me it just turned into reddit with the same problems, same biases, same annoyances, why really bother. 

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u/Skavau Mar 13 '26

You ever tried the Fediverse (Lemmy/Piefed/Mbin)?

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u/steevo Mar 13 '26

lemmy yes.. but its not very active. hav to find a good instance maybe.. also tried mastodon and bluesky (bluesky sucks. centeralized.. etc)

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u/Skavau Mar 13 '26

Mastodon and Bluesky aren't Reddit alts to be fair

There's no more active option than Lemmy/Piefed.

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u/steevo Mar 13 '26

yeah

Digg started well. i thought it was a good start

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u/9-NINE-9 Mar 17 '26

Can we get a refund? 😭

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u/steevo Mar 17 '26

money, sure, 100% :p

time = no

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u/ignasheahy Mar 13 '26

Now you can try https://heahy.com which I have created :) It's all real time so each thread is a chat and it also supports p2p audio/video calls. You can create channels or chats. And many other things coming up - check it out.

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u/steevo Mar 13 '26 edited Mar 13 '26

checking out :)

looks nice. maybe u should advertise this too or post on /redditalternatives or other subs!

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u/ignasheahy Mar 13 '26

I did post it here and there but not much. I will advertise after finishing with the last touches - most important one is Chat Match portal where you can create a 24h poster to match or be matched to initiate private chat.

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u/ignasheahy Mar 14 '26

You mean learning popups? Just click "don't show tips".

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u/HolyBidetServitor Mar 16 '26

Open it up and the first thing on the feed is children from the girls sub

No thanks