This screenshot was recently released by the Digg team.

Digg was the predecessor to reddit, which destroyed itself with a catastrophically bad redesign, pushing everyone to move to reddit. Now, they’re attempting a re-launch.

Looks like they’re going all-in on gamification, which doesn’t inspire much hope from me. It’ll be interesting to see what eventually arrives.

UPDATE: My source for this was here which is supposedly a screenshot of a tweet by https://x.com/avstorm

But there is no tweet about digg by that account. Also the tweet doesn’t fit the style of his other tweets.

So yeah. The whole thing is likely to be fake.

UPDATE 2: original tweet https://x.com/avstorm/status/1924956444673106374. But it has no attribution and afaik ‘avstorm’ is not affiliated with Digg. I still think it’s fake.

  • astro_ray@piefed.social
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    7 months ago

    Never heard about Digg before all the reddit drama, but if they shot themselves in the foot before, then why do people want to go back there again?

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      7 months ago

      lack of competition in the space. there’s demand for reddit without reddit, Where else are they going to go? Lemmy isn’t ready. Hive is a crypto scam. I’d give digg another go, i doubt it’s being run by the same people who fucked it up over a decade ago.