Kevin Rose, Alexis Ohanian acquire Digg
Kevin Rose, Alexis Ohanian acquire Digg
Digg is now back under the ownership of original founder Kevin Rose, who is joined by Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian.
Not sure why any developer who isn’t a self-loathing masochist would work for these clowns ever again. Rose was a brittle little bitch who threw his own dev team under the bus when Digg 4 bombed. Somehow I doubt that years of fattening up while marinating in venture capital and crypto wealth have matured that shallow tea-sucking fucker in any meaningful way.
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Digg was still around?
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Yea this is gonna go badly....
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Based on the first episode of Diggnation reboot, Kevin Rose is just another empty tech bro now (maybe always?). I have zero positive expectations of this new Digg venture and that's probably optimistic.
I left Digg V2 when it went to shit, to Reddit. Now that the same is happening to Reddit (fuck spez), interested to see what Digg Reboot would be like.
You're here now. There's not an ad in sight. Actually people talking to you.
Why do you want to go check out some corpo bullshit?.I am serious. I don't understand why people want our chat forums to be run by venture capital.
AI... AI Everywhere
Where we’re really going is, a year, year and a half from now, is when you come to Digg, it’s going to be very much more like the leap that happened to Figma, where it’s free form, it’s dynamic, it’s an interface that is unlike any other that you’ve seen,” says Rose. “It’s not your old-school forums
Umm. Figma’s UI is exactly something people saw before. It’s aggressively based on Sketch’s UI.
Figma blew up because it was free for non-enterprise use, had Invision-style prototyping built-in, it was a more performant than Sketch, and they were adding features faster than Sketch could.
And FigJam is just a Miro / Mural clone. But that is also very performant, and they had some silly features / plugins that made work fun.
Wow, I was confused who it was at first.
Who? Why should we care about them taking over? Is this seen as positive for the platform?
Reddit (and by extension, Lemmy) likely wouldn't exist without Kevin Rose. He both popularized the concept of user driven link aggregators and royally screwed digg during a big redesign, pushing the users to reddit.
Alexis Ohanian is generally considered a "better" cofounder of reddit (or atleast, not spez). I think the two combining forces to relaunch an OG site is newsworthy.
If it's a positive, will remain to be seen. I won't go back to a closed/non-federated platform, personally.
Thank you! I apricot your clear response.
Nor will I and so I would argue this actually isn't newsworthy here.
I don't need to hear about anyone getting a bunch of money to cook up a shit stew in case anyone was wondering. You can miss me with that "news."
Kevin Rose is one of the co-founders of Digg, and Alexis Ohanian is one of the co-founders of Reddit. Considering the "success" of both sites it could be a big deal, but more than likely it'll just try to pass itself off as a Reddit alternative that'll eventually go to shit or implement a bunch of AI and crypto bullshit.
meh
The new Diggnation podcasts have been pretty great with that old feel somewhat back. I am holding out hope that this is a good thing and it won’t turn into some crypto bullshit.
If he rebooted his first show The Broken, I would watch every second. It was seriously his best work.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNjoo9TuCHY
Edit: it's not a reboot if he doesn't bring back hacking with Ramzi.
There's no reason to expect this to succeed, but I put my name on the list to be notified when it launches. We'll see, I guess.
Wow those sure are some punchable faces
Oddly enough, I still went to Digg sometimes if I was stuck at work without anything else to look at.
Looks like another website is going into my website graveyard.
The only reason I have any hope for this is hoping Alexis Ohanians wife (Serena Williams) has been a good influence on him and making him understand how bad things really are right now.