Can we bully him into federating
this post was submitted on 05 Mar 2025
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I rememeber leaving Digg.
And Kevin Rose was the killer the first time.
Guy should really move on.
Oooh, bring slashdot back too.
Slashdot is still around and has been for a while
All the progressives left and it's just libertarians now.
Well, Digg back then was better than Reddit is now, so I guess that's something.
Digg was never better than reddit.
Yep. There's a reason I moved over even before the v4/2011 fiasco
/c/nottheonion
he's also a huge venture capitalist invested in ai too
AI slop
Damn he’s old….
…..looks in mirror…..
Damn he’s old too……
What the fuck happened to him? He looks old!
He looks like early 2000s Kevin Rose aged up to pretend he's 2020s Kevin Rose.
Right? I watched him on TechTV as a kid, but then he turned into a douchey tech-bro and I haven't kept up - and now he looks like an old man!
I once listened to an episode of his tech-bro podcast and it hit me right in the childhood memories...
No thanks, people hop from centralized platform to centralized platform thinking things will be different.
Consolidated power, especially when fully captured by market forces, will always enshitify, the only out is federation.
I joined Reddit originally because Digg fuckin' sucked lol
Same. I was a Digg refuge when I joined Reddit as well. That redesign was totally ass!
Reddit used to be good, now its just another app nag whore.
- Find new niche media
- Enjoy
- More people join
- Media changes
- More people = more context = wider viewpoints = more infighting
- Media changes too much
- Look for alternatives
- Find new niche media
- Enjoy
- More people join......
I would append to #5: “= more ad revenue = more bending over for shareholders”
- Media changes too much because of enshitification.
Regular users are not the problem, for the most part, assuming decent moderation.
Massive assumption there lol
Many such cases
Probably wouldn't get me to leave Lemmy, but I wouldn't mind another competitor to Reddit.
As far as centralized servers go I've always liked tildes.net as a reddit alternative.
Briefly joined Discuit during the Reddit API ruckus but I was already on Lemmy so I never stuck with it. It's been open sourced and the people seemed mostly pleasant so it seemed like it was on a reasonable path towards creating a good space.
Fool me thrice...
Kevin Rose is a huge turd
He looks like one.
Look I get why everybody wants to shit all over this, and for good reasons.
But we can't all be like "Kendrick Lamar's Superbowl performance was a deep political critique on the problems in America and the resurgence of a racial divide in America!" that literally featured Serena Williams crip walking, and turn around and act like she has zero influence on her husband Alexis Ohanian, his politics, or his understanding of where America is at.
I am cautiously optimistic.
Strange, are people really arguing that? Back in 2020 Alexis Ohanian resigned from the board of Reddit and asked for his seat to be replaced with a black candidate. Say what you want about the guy but he doesn't seem that out of touch with America's racial issues.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/05/tech/alexis-ohanian-reddit/index.html
I don't have any issues with the guy but IMO the Digg thing may end up going nowhere if they're really planning on relying on AI for moderation, just seems like like a bad idea overall
What? Not following at all
Everyone acts like Alexis Ohanian is an untrustworthy piece of shit because he was a reddit founder.
He is married to Serena Williams. Williams has been a focal point of hate from the right wing for decades (including internationally). Literally years of unnecessary hate and derision on her because she didn'f fit stereotypical beauty guidelines and is a badass tennis player (a very white dominated sport). She also literally has first hand experience of having her medical issues ignored by doctors during her pregnancy, which happens at a far greater rate for black women.
Williams may be rich, but she was never obscene rich, and she got where she was squarely off her real talents. She also was part of a Superbowl show which made a point to critique where America is at and where it is headed, particularly in respect to race relations. A superbowl show that made right wingers collectively melt down.
I'm saying people are acting like she, a black woman who has experienced direct adversity from the right-wing, has no impact on how Ohanian conducts himself or how he approaches life, and that we should expect the same-old, same-old techbro bullshit from him. I just don't think that's the case after they've been married so long.
Alexis Ohanian is an untrustworthy piece of shit because he’s a crypto scam promoter.
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