Digg’s officially launched now for about a month and it’s… really underwhelming.

The “Most Dugg” posts by upvotes as of this post:

+110, +107, +89, +86, +84, +84, +79, +79 (roughly in the last 24 hours)

As compared to Lemmy/Piefed/Mbin as seen on Lemmy.world (Top in last 24 hours):

+1.22k, +952, +855, +751, +669, +646, +620, +612

That’s really poor from Digg honestly.

  • JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.socialEnglish
    26·
    1 day ago

    Keeping in mind that I didn’t use Digg much back in the day, I don’t really understand the idea of re-launching a service that fell out of use in the first place.

    Or if MySpace (etc) was to relaunch with modern features, could it expect to succeed out of nostalgia, or something…?

    • mastertigurius@lemmy.worldEnglish
      24·
      1 day ago

      You halfway answered your own question there. Just like in games and movies, they are lazily leaning on nostalgia in the hopes that it will magically generate some money.

      • JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.socialEnglish
        5·
        1 day ago

        You think? With those things you mention, you can make a product that pushes the right buttons, hits the right notes, and be done with it, letting it sell itself on its own from that point forward.

        Now compare that to relaunching a major social media platform and keeping it alive with investor money until it eventually and hopefully ‘makes it.’ Seems like a considerably different thing to me.

        I’m reminded of the Arsenio Hall Show which ran from '89-94, did well for its time, but whose shelf life kind of naturally expired. They tried to bring it back in 2013, but cancelled it after a single season, because… nostalgia could only prop it up for so long. Or something like that.

    • halcyoncmdr@piefed.socialEnglish
      14·
      1 day ago

      Nostalgia and hoping to grab users as they abandon reddit, which is where the users originally moved in the first place.

    • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      23 hours ago

      There is a myspace clone I saw about 2 years ago. I was new to the fediverse. I THOUGHT the myspace clone was part of the fediverse. It wasn’t.

      I was going to join, but turns out this service was not open source. It’s not part of the fediverse. It’s essentially just some guy running the service, and can freely read anyones messages.

      So I didn’t join. But if there were an open source federated version of myspace? Yes. I would join.

      • 🌞 Alexander Daychilde 🌞@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        3 hours ago

        and can freely read anyones messages.

        You do realize this is true of any service, yes? Unless there is 1:1 end-to-end encryption, perhaps. Even there, unless you’re pasting in encrypted data into the app, the app can potentially send your unencrypted data somewhere.

        • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          2 hours ago

          That may all be true and all, but other services aren’t one guy.

          It would be like signing up for a fediverse instance, which uses closed source software, and it’s just one guy running the service for a small amount of people.

          I don’t know who runs Lemmy.world, but at no point do I think the admins are targeting me, to read through my inbox. My judgement says that’s not what the admins are doing with their time.

          But this myspace clone had 300ish registered members on a single centralized closed source platform being run and created by one guy with zero oversight. I can’t say that he created the service specifically to spy on people, but it certainly doesn’t pass the sniff test.