Lots of venture capital money behind it. I wonder how quickly the enshitification will begin.
Is it federated?
Fuck all of these silicon valley parasites.
Even before they maximize revenue and as a result enshitify the site, the government and monied interests will have or be able to get their hooks in them, to influence moderation, visibility, allowing influence ops now going nuclear with government connected ones utilizing the cutting edge chat bots, along with agents and bots. Some half of all interactions are fake as such now they think.
We need to make federated social media a thing. Like this, but better instances making it more usable to get tje critical mass of users.
Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.
Yeah… no. None of that sounds appealing.
‘Curbing toxicity with AI’ means a bot is going to ban you because it doesn’t recognise sarcasm.
And ‘new tech to verify your identity’ sounds like a privacy violation at best.
‘Verifying that you own a product before they let you post in its community’ is a complete lack of understanding of how people use places like this.
Digg can fuck right off.
While AI obviously is not perfect and is flawed in many ways, having AI sift through the torrent of comments and then flag problematic submissions for human review is likely going to be extremely effective with minimal false positives. Though I do say this as a person whose Reddit account is currently banned for 3 days for “inciting violence” because of a knife-based joke.
I got banned from reddit last week for “threatening violence” basically because my comment contained the word “die.” It wasn’t a verb.
Reddit is super aggressive with this shit now. If you say “Don’t drink bleach, that would kill you.” Their AI bullshit just sees “kill you” and bans you for threats.
Site is fucking useless, don’t even bother at this point. It’s mostly robots talking to other robots at this point anyway.
Ah I see someone else suffering the same shit as myself. Inciting violence for comparatives is what happened to me. No, neither side should celebrate violence. Human life is invaluable.
True. Human life is invaluable. Problem is that we’re dealing with a lot of sub-humans. They’ve matriculated into the Republican party and chanted “Jews will not replace us” at Charlottesville.
It’s not murder when you take an animal out behind the shed.
Ranting about the untermensch to show how much I’m not a Nazi…
If you really think Nazis are subhuman, you’re not going to be prepared to do what needs to be done when the time comes. These are human people. They laugh, they cry, they have moms and dads and brothers and sisters and husbands and friends. They look just like you or me, you bump elbows with them in the grocery store. You’ve shaken their hands, made small talk with them, and laughed at their jokes.
None of that changes what must be done.
They look and act human, true. But, they’re missing something (a soul?, a conscience? Empathy? A brain?), so that makes them sub-human.
Murder is a crime of 1 human killing another full human.
I was interested for like 15-20 seconds until I realized I have this place now and I actually don’t give an exploding flying fuck
Digg tried to unseat reddit decades ago. Didn’t fly then, likely not gonna fly now
Plus, Rose suggests Digg could use signals acquired from mobile devices to help verify members — for instance, the app could identify when Digg users attended a meetup in the same location.
Maybe I’m being paranoid, but this does not sound like a good thing for privacy.
“Hi! We’ve just noticed there are 2 other members of d/footfettish next to you, go say hi!”
Low key win for kink communities.
I got about a quarter way through the article before realizing that I don’t care in the slightest.
However, the rise of AI has presented an opportunity to rebuild Digg, Rose and Ohanian believe, leading them to acquire Digg last March through a leveraged buyout by True Ventures, Ohanian’s firm Seven Seven Six, Rose and Ohanian themselves, and the venture firm S32. The company has not disclosed its funding.
May as well get the shovel already.
What’s the point of this when Fediverse is technologically superior?
Superior technology does not necessarily mean a superior product. History has plenty of examples where the inferior technology won out because the majority of people don’t care about having the best or most advanced technology, they want the easiest, cheapest and (most importantly) lowest effort.
To be clear, I don’t think digg is a superior product either, I’m just saying that how good the tech is matters far less than people want to believe. What truly matters is the implementation.
Look at that, Digg-ing up the corpse of a horse just to beat it more.
It’s Digg, don’t bother with them.
I highly doubt anyone on the fediverse will migrate from here to there. Perhaps Digg wants Redditors to switch over to them? I don’t really understand who this is for.
Fediverse ftw
They’re betting that AI can help to address some of the messiness and toxicity of today’s social media landscape. At the same time, social platforms will need a new set of tools to ensure they’re not taken over by AI bots posing as people.
“We’re banking on AI as a competitive advantage but also, here’s why it’s bad” is quite a business strategy
