Lots of venture capital money behind it. I wonder how quickly the enshitification will begin.

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    I was gonna give it a chance back when they were letting people reserve their usernames. When the site first went live (in beta, I guess?) they wanted me to pay them money to gain access. Enshittification is baked into the platform.

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    I watched Kevin and company rebuild this through their pre-platform

    Same centralized gamed bullshit

    Kevin Rose is a looser

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    I really wanted to like it, but it’s already a right-wing cesspit. 🤷‍♂️ Maaaaaybe it’ll improve, now that it’s public, but I don’t have high hopes.

    I know this place is just the opposite kind of echo chamber, but when the other option is being beaten over the head with transphobia and Maga shit, ehh, I’ll take it.

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        The reality that people manage to share with others, perhaps. I think peoples’ inner worlds, internal feelings and emotions have likely shown changing trends of comprehension/awareness throughout our histories and likely through all of time. The nature of consciousness is far from deciphered, so it makes sense (to me) to interpret your reference to reality as the one that we all share, talk about, and know about thusfar (this is how I understood your definition of the term, when upvoting your sentimental statement)

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            Language sux, make new ones (words, I guess, is the unit of measure or base unit here, since I think creating whole new languages from scratch without accidentally just mapping out an old language you already know well onto a new linguistic [phonetic?] structure would be difficult for groups of people to do, especially if they all had some shared language that they knew and that most of their ideas that they have learned were taught to them in that language, while they were all trying to creatively conceive of a new language to use amongst each other, even if they set out with an intention to try to not copy or carry over much or any of the previous languages rules, structures, patterns, etc. ). all I really did was try to explain why I was reluctant to upvote based on the necessarily ambiguous definitions of two of the key words in the initial comment. “Reality” was the one I chose to reflect upon and rant about, rather than “liberal”, because I think the attitude of trying to anthropomorphize a concept that none of us knows a perfect definition for, and there will likely be ongoing scientific and philosophical debate on the concept for centuries yet to come, is even more poetically dubious than claiming that all of existence somehow conforms to ones own personal expectation and not recognizing the dangers associated with various biases which might inform our current disposition towards concepts or issues which we have come to recently develop or consider within our working framework of understanding upon which we each may be standing for ourselves in order to maintain such an extracurricular style of dialogue.

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            People always talk about word salad like its a bad thing. Salad is good. Words must be the shitty part they are referencing, ig, idk. I see no way that two good things combined together could become a bad thing, but I always liked words so I don’t ever know what the haters are talking about

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    I see they’re making a play for that sweet “I liked this before it went public and got enshittified so I’m gonna switch to this other one that hasn’t gone public and gotten enshittified yet and hope it gets popular enough that it goes public and gets enshittified” cash.

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      Yes, the “yet” is doing all the work here. Along with a heft dose of “Digg was great” for those of its who used it and, well, the inevitable enshittification that all PE-led startups follow. And Rose has proven he’s no exception.

      A bit like Bluesky, where the USP is “just like Xitter, but without Elmo at the helm”. The days are numbered, etc.

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    Conceptually what does this offer that the fediverse/threadiverse/lemmy/piefed doesn’t?

    What then does it say about the actual value of this company and others like it?

    If you want a hypercurated/focused reddit experience just join metafilter.

    https://www.metafilter.com/

    Somehow I don’t get the feeling the owners of Digg are going to be happy with the level of income Metafilter brings in to its owners however…

    “We kind of opted for … let’s just keep building this plane as we fly it,” explained Digg CEO Justin Mezzell. “That means that it’s going to be very lightweight, and we’re just going to be aggressively shipping every week and just giving them new features as we go,” he added.

    camera slowly pans and zooms out to the Fediverse where mint condition airplanes can be seen everywhere with the word FREE on them

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    This has all the markings of more VC AI garbage. Hopefully it does pull some users away from Reddit just to break up the centralization a little bit more, but overall I don’t see what the appeal is supposed to be.

    I’ll stick with the fediverse.

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    Me checking it out: types d i g g . c o m enter

    Digg: Something went wrong! Show errror

    Me: clicks show error box nothing

    Welp so much for that

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    Clicked around…looks like every corpo site out there. Im not sure what this gives other than yet another place to talk about very general subjects.

    I just dont see the appeal to be honest. At least with the fedi, we can chose what our joinable communities look like. This just looks like yet another “app”. With a never ending feed…

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