Digg is going away again, but Kevin Rose is coming back.
  • Dr. Moose@lemmy.worldEnglish
    652·
    7 days ago

    Nah it sucked. I was on it. It was just lemmy but with less features and with less content. It was dead the moment it started because it did nothing.

    I don’t understand how they even think it could succeed.

    • Psythik@lemmy.worldEnglish
      181·
      7 days ago

      I didn’t even know it relaunched. They should have advertised it better. I would have checked it out had I known it was coming back.

      • Stern@lemmy.worldEnglish
        81·
        7 days ago

        I paid 5 bucks for a founder badge. I’ve spent more on poorer decisions but that only reduces the sting a little.

        • MoonRaven@feddit.nlEnglish
          3·
          6 days ago

          Yeah, same. What I found weird is that they couldn’t even send a freaking message. No “hey, we’re shutting down”, and I guess some people will be annoyed because they lost their saved stuff.

    • Katana314@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      6 days ago

      Right, but isn’t Lemmy itself a bit of a “less features” version of Reddit? I’m not here for features, I’m here to get away from toxic Reddit mods because fuck spez.

      I’ll admit, I might have taken the bet that “reddit but not reddit” would hold at least some interest.

      • Dr. Moose@lemmy.worldEnglish
        8·
        6 days ago

        Kind of but decentralization really makes it up for it. Digg didn’t even have custom communities let alone decentralization.

        • Sl00k@programming.devEnglish
          4·
          6 days ago

          I have my complaints with Lemmy but I was astounded with how bad Digg was. It’s like none of them actually used these community based apps.

      • Anaeijon@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        3·
        6 days ago

        I know about it, but didn’t recognize the code. So I assumed, they encoded some text to make it harder to read. So I tried decoding it.

        Turns out, if you decode this in UTF-16, it turns into a japanese sentence

        契ȑ璝寣䇘앖噣삈

        Which means (according to DeepL)

        The sound of the wind rustling through the trees

        And now I’m confused, why.

        • pipe01@programming.devEnglish
          3·
          5 days ago

          That’s not Japanese, there’s some Chinese and Korean characters in there too. Turns out if you decode random bytes as UTF chars you will probably get a CJK character lol

      • orbitz@lemmy.caEnglish
        21·
        6 days ago

        Thanks for the link I never remembered the numbers to know if it was for that or not…course been online long enough to know that’s the code (style) shown in comments. Was a lot of comments at one point.

        My only unsureness of the code is cause I’m old and miss newer stuff so had to check to be sure.

    • dan@upvote.auEnglish
      17·
      6 days ago

      lol I still have a screenshot of Digg from when every article on the home page had this key in it.

        • SirEDCaLot@lemmy.todayEnglish
          2·
          6 days ago

          Yup.
          The problem is, how do you guarantee access control that works offline?

          DVD DRM was based on a pretty simple system that was easy to crack.
          HD-DVD (former blu-ray competitor) DRM was more advanced. Someone hacked a software player and extracted its decode key, which this was.
          The DRM was designed to be updateable so any discs manufactured after this leak would use different keys (and anyone using the software app that’d been hacked would need an update). That didn’t stop this key from working on every disc in existence at the time.

          That’s the problem with making software decoding available. It had to work offline, so you could have an authorized player software, and feed it any valid disk, and it’d Just Work. So even if you put a crypto enclave in the drive controller, the player software still needs its own way to authenticate itself to the drive.

          • RR∆S®MinoriMirari®.Prod@lemmy.worldEnglish
            11·
            6 days ago

            aside from like, I mean I see your point there. I have been doing a little work here and there studying Quantum based keying and security. Even being one the more well rounded casual internet individuals with a greater technicality of understanding said stuff. It still scares me, if not more so being able to see when even my own capacity to keep up with it all that or even just the complexity of these new age Ai systems does get to me, not gona lie about that. Watching my own abilities to not just know but even the tail end of conceptual break down of not what exactly powers these things nor at what line they have or the validity of the Ai’s own thinking and its true or not understandings “those things I get and can wrap my mind around” But lately fully being able to keep up with i.e. I will give you one or so examples that does and even scares me half to death, because I not only have no idea entirely at said point, but what I do know is an Ai of such magnitude would supersede mine and likely the majority if not all human technical capabilities, stuff like Quantum cognition architectures are quite hard to wrap the brain around, and with Latent‐Space these days exceeding either parties full understanding, no Ai nor human can currently fully explain whats happening in some the latest or future conceptual GAi: generative Ai tandems of systems. They say blackbox, but we understand most “blackbox” atleast conceptually, some the newest algorithmic and multi modality systems though become any ones guess. I myself am just hoping at this point to keep up with Quantum related security protocols and possible insights on research into such things.

    • zbyte64@awful.systemsEnglish
      5·
      6 days ago

      Apparently you can get that sequence from an AI bot if you ask it “correctly”. But rules for thee and all that.

  • Sat@lemmy.worldEnglish
    453·
    7 days ago

    I tried using it and was kinda hopeful, but NSFW was against their TOS which is a no go.

  • reksas@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    231·
    6 days ago

    blaming? shouldnt they have celebrated how much people utilize their beloved slopmachines?

  • SwizzleStick@lemmy.zipEnglish
    16·
    7 days ago

    Honestly, the first rebirth as a run-of-the-mill article aggregator was better. A lot of it I’d have already seen elsewhere, but occasionally it’d have something interesting that I missed.

    Whatever they do, they’ll still be riding the name of a very dead horse.

  • Tollana1234567@lemmy.todayEnglish
    111·
    7 days ago

    well duh, reddit/X/Insta, MEta,etc is infested by AI BOT/bot spammers for a while to spread propaganda or do things like promote links of OF, or other businesses. thats the other reason why they are very ban heavy as of late. diggs or any other platform would suffer the same fate.

    • vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2·
      7 days ago

      Hey now let’s be fair, not all of it is AI propaganda. Some of it is shrimp Jesus. Mind you that also started as propaganda but it’s since devolved into something so much more fascinating, namely because how the fuck do you even get to shrimp Jesus.

  • lastlybutfirstly@lemmy.worldEnglish
    51·
    6 days ago

    Didn’t you have to buy an account at Digg? If so, were the bots buying the accounts? And if so, who was buying them?

  • AgentBoom@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    5 days ago

    I tried it and liked it a bit. The problem for me was that it was very empty: posts about the same article had more comments in Lemmy than Digg. It also lacked many features that even Lemmy has. And, since everyone was able to create 2 communities, there were more communities than users. Most of them were created and forgotten, while others tried to get bigger with only 1 user posting everyday. The biggest/mainstream communities had less than 100k users each one. After some days, I joined Lemmy and never looked back.

  • wabafee@lemmy.worldEnglish
    31·
    7 days ago

    They missed an opportunity there. Could have pivot something similar to moltbook.