digg with ai backed by venture capitalists? no frickin thank you. digg was bad enough without ai and venture capitalists.
I have a lot of fond nostalgia for Digg, and Kevin Rose, especially from the Tech TV days.
But reading this article doesn’t exactly spark much excitement for me. In the end, it’s just another centralized capitalist venture (now with AI slop from the start) that will end up enshitified in the pursuit of shareholder profits.
We are already using the alternative. Lemmy is the way forward for this format.
Competition is good. I welcome Kevin to try again.
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Never forget Aaron Swartz.
I hope those are 2 major pieces of the soul of this new digg.
I, too, think humans become incapable of learning from their mistakes when they become wealthy. That’s what keeps them wealthy of course.
More seriously, it makes sense that this could become a good thing. If it’s true that Kevin failed the first time by lacking the confidence to stand up for his ideals, why are we judging what we haven’t seen yet? Give him a chance.
(Is that true? I’m open to being wrong.)
If they ran ads asking Reddit moderators to catalogue their frustrations, it feels reasonable that he could be bankrolling solutions to address those weaknesses and problems.
I’m excited to see what amazing new Fediverse features will be inspired by what he pays his teams to build for Digg.
(I need some hope for the future, damnit. Do NOT take this away from me.)
I, too, think humans become incapable of learning from their mistakes when they become wealthy.
IMO it’s a side effect of money being seen as the most important thing in life and the measure of success. Our culture says the more money you have, the greater a success you are.
With that in mind, imagine you’re a rich person. In your mind, that makes you a success.
You hear people with less money than you giving their opinions of what you should do, and you think “well why would I listen to these people? If they were as clever as me, they’d have as much money (read: success) as me. They do not, ergo their ideas must be worse than mine.”
In the mind of a mega-wealthy person, any normal person trying to give advice is met with the same reaction that a minimum wage toilet cleaner would be if they tried to give life advice to a median earner. “Huh? Really? You’re trying to give me life advice? Lmao. Ok buddy, sure.”
It completely explains why so many wealthy people surround themselves in yes men. It not necessarily that they hate any pushback (although of course it sometimes is this), it’s that they won’t take it seriously from someone who, by their perceived metric of success, is less qualified to call the shots.
And you know what? It’s not actually a completely unreasonable deduction. It’s just based on a flawed and extremely fucked up premise. Any person thinking clearly of course realises that there’s so much more to life than wealth.
Shit is still shit. Sprinkle it with gold, coat it with sugar. It still shit.
But have you tried Strawberry Milkshake Frosted Flakes?
Dump a bowl of Lucky Charms marshmallows in there and baby, you got a stew going!
Digg Gold you say… 🤔
I spent a ton of time on digg back in the day. Then it went to shit.
I see they’ve deleted old user accounts. Oh well, I was briefly curious but that’s gone now.
Bring back break.com you cowards
(They had a video of a car jump that made me laugh every time I saw it and I can’t find it any more)
