If you still have a Reddit account, feel free to chime in with your experiences with Lemmy’s upvote policy :)
Isn’t it wild how when a traditional social media terminally enshittifies and a mastodon alternative is poised to take over, there’s always a new VC-backed alternative popping up? Happened with Xitter/Mastodon/Bsky, now with Reddit/Lemmy/Digg
I really hope digg turns out to be shit.
Oh, it will
I see more mentions of Digg than Lemmy in that thread. Many Redditors still don’t know about Lemmy.
I bet this is astroturfed.
It’s kinda wild that people think new Digg is going to be any kind of solution or alternative. It’s the same shit wrapped in a different package
What is Digg?
Reddit before Reddit. Another community link aggregation site where users would “digg” (upvote) the most interesting stories across a variety of categories. After an unpopular site redesign and a poor algorithm that favored a handful of power users, the userbase left en masse to join the competing platform, Reddit.
In the wake of the entire userbase leaving, Digg turned into some kind of generic curated news site or something, nobody is really sure because nobody went there for like a solid 15 years. Just this month, original Digg co-founder Kevin Rose and Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian purchased Digg back from whoever the hell owned Digg lately intending to once again compete as a Reddit alternative.
The Reddit alternative from before Reddit was big. At one point they were comparable in size and had a friendly rivalry, I believe in the late 2000s. Digg is no better than Reddit, they have had numerous migrations to Reddit from admin issues, if I remember right.
