The Return of Digg, a Star of Web 2.0 (Gift Article)
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Shit is still shit. Sprinkle it with gold, coat it with sugar. It still shit.
But have you tried Strawberry Milkshake Frosted Flakes?
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I spent a ton of time on digg back in the day. Then it went to shit.
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I, too, think humans become incapable of learning from their mistakes when they become wealthy. That’s what keeps them wealthy of course.
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But have you tried Strawberry Milkshake Frosted Flakes?
Dump a bowl of Lucky Charms marshmallows in there and baby, you got a stew going!
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Never forget Aaron Swartz.
I hope those are 2 major pieces of the soul of this new digg.
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Shit is still shit. Sprinkle it with gold, coat it with sugar. It still shit.
Digg Gold you say...
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Competition is good. I welcome Kevin to try again.
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I, too, think humans become incapable of learning from their mistakes when they become wealthy. That’s what keeps them wealthy of course.
I, too, think humans become incapable of learning from their mistakes when they become wealthy.
IMO it's a side effect of money being seen as the most important thing in life and the measure of success. Our culture says the more money you have, the greater a success you are.
With that in mind, imagine you're a rich person. In your mind, that makes you a success.
You hear people with less money than you giving their opinions of what you should do, and you think "well why would I listen to these people? If they were as clever as me, they'd have as much money (read: success) as me. They do not, ergo their ideas must be worse than mine."
In the mind of a mega-wealthy person, any normal person trying to give advice is met with the same reaction that a minimum wage toilet cleaner would be if they tried to give life advice to a median earner. "Huh? Really? You're trying to give me life advice? Lmao. Ok buddy, sure."
It completely explains why so many wealthy people surround themselves in yes men. It not necessarily that they hate any pushback, it's that they won't take it seriously from someone who, by their perceived metric of success, is less qualified to call the shots.
And you know what? It's not actually a completely unreasonable deduction. It's just based on a flawed and extremely fucked up premise.
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I have a lot of fond nostalgia for Digg, and Kevin Rose, especially from the Tech TV days.
But reading this article doesn't exactly spark much excitement for me. In the end, it's just another centralized capitalist venture (now with AI slop from the start) that will end up enshitified in the pursuit of shareholder profits.
We are already using the alternative. Lemmy is the way forward for this format.
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digg with ai backed by venture capitalists? no frickin thank you. digg was bad enough without ai and venture capitalists.
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