Veedem@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 17 days agoDigg launches its new Reddit rival to the publictechcrunch.comexternal-linkmessage-square104linkfedilinkarrow-up152arrow-down12file-text
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minus-squarekyonshi@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·16 days agoYou mean the digg everyone ditched for reddit when they went insane? That digg? I think some people don’t even realize that digg used to be way more popular than that very basic reddit thingy nobody used.
minus-squarejungle@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·16 days agoNo, they built a completely new product.
minus-squarekyonshi@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·16 days agostill the same company though. why trust them not to fuck it up like they did before?
minus-squarejungle@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·16 days agoIt’s also not the same company. More than a few years have passed, and even though Kevin Rose is involved, you can assume a few lessons were learned. So in any case they’ll fuck it up in an entirely new way. Or, maybe, they won’t.
minus-squareApollosArrow@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·15 days agoKevin Rose also left Digg at some point, not sure how much of that demise is on him. He had to buy it back for this second run.
minus-squarejungle@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·15 days agoHe left after the collapse. He was very involved in the redesign, I remember listening to him talking about it on the TWIT podcast.
You mean the digg everyone ditched for reddit when they went insane? That digg?
I think some people don’t even realize that digg used to be way more popular than that very basic reddit thingy nobody used.
No, they built a completely new product.
still the same company though. why trust them not to fuck it up like they did before?
It’s also not the same company. More than a few years have passed, and even though Kevin Rose is involved, you can assume a few lessons were learned.
So in any case they’ll fuck it up in an entirely new way. Or, maybe, they won’t.
Kevin Rose also left Digg at some point, not sure how much of that demise is on him. He had to buy it back for this second run.
He left after the collapse. He was very involved in the redesign, I remember listening to him talking about it on the TWIT podcast.