Not much info yet, but I grew up on Digg, so I’m cautiously optimistic. Probably no Fediverse support, but honestly, any Reddit alternative is a win. Really hoping for real API access and third-party apps.
80% chance is going to be a crypto scam. 20% chance it’s going to be a right wing cespool
Rose not listening to users is what killed he platform before, I seriously doubt he has gotten over that ego.
Nah, it’s gonna be ass, they haven’t even launched and they are talking about AI. Totally tone deaf.
Sounds great in theory but proprietary/corpo owned websites don’t matter one bit to me anymore.
Lemmy exists now. We don’t need another corporation.
I’m not going to go back to a closed-source centralized platform
But maybe this time the hot stove won’t burn me if I touched it?
Yeah sure, this time the giant company won’t enshittify.
I used to be on digg. Fuck digg, let’s ddos these cunts. Then cook some reddit datacenters.
Its gonna be linked to reddit and theyll pretend its federated to take steam away from federated stuff like bluesky did to mastodon
There seems to be this possessive myth that Mastodon would have been more popular if only it hadn’t been for Bluesky. Nah. It would have been exactly as popular as it currently is. The techies like us would have found it, just like we did, but everyone else would haven’t have used it. Everyone would just still be on Twitter.
I get everyone’s beef with Bluesky, but let’s not pretend that Mastodon isn’t responsible for its own problems.
I was looking forward to it, but then I got here, and find that it suits me.
Not interested. Ohanian wants to moderate it with AI which is an absolute nope from me. I also have mbin and that’s fine for me. I guess the edge case that might make me visit it would be the handful of reddit communities I still use for Japan tax/legal/biz/etc. that won’t move to the fediverse decided to move there. I guess that’s preferable to occasionally using reddit.
My god, what’s next, the most triumphant return of Geocities, replete with blinking text, construction signs and visitor counter?
No real info, so I am not hopeful and cynical.
My guess the new superpower is AI stuff or a shop to give them money for the memes.
I don’t trust it.
In 2025, that’s like saying “Hey, we should go back to Myspace!” Myspace did a complete makeover, too. Does anybody care? No.
I am not optimistic. Kevin Rose spent the last few years doing crypto/NFT nonsense, and is now on the AI train. Plus, link aggregators have tried to double down on AI with mixed results. See the example of Artifact, which crashed and burned just last year. There is no business model for this, and if there were, I wouldn’t trust Kevin Rose to deliver it. I say this as someone who was a massive Digg/Revision3/Diggnation fan as a teenager but grew disillusioned.
