Digg is currently allowing users to pay $5 to get in first and help test the platform.
It was created by the same people as reddit, and will ultimately suffer the same fate as reddit. It solves nothing, but users will prefer it because a smooth UX is so important, and Lemmy doesn’t offer that yet.
Lemmy has a smooth UX if you are using a custom client though
The vast majority of people don’t even know what that is.
I didn’t even know there was an official client, and I’ve been on Lemmy for two years
Those who quit reddit after they started killing off custom clients know, I bet. There are dozens of us!