• @TK420
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    4518 hours ago

    Damn he’s old….

    ……looks in mirror……

    Damn he’s old too……

    • @[email protected]
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      717 hours ago

      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!

      • @[email protected]
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        113 hours ago

        I once listened to an episode of his tech-bro podcast and it hit me right in the childhood memories…

    • @BrianTheeBiscuiteer
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      213 hours ago

      He looks like early 2000s Kevin Rose aged up to pretend he’s 2020s Kevin Rose.

    • @jownz
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      37 hours ago

      Same. I was a Digg refuge when I joined Reddit as well. That redesign was totally ass!

      • @[email protected]
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        1216 hours ago
        1. Find new niche media
        2. Enjoy
        3. More people join
        4. Media changes
        5. More people = more context = wider viewpoints = more infighting
        6. Media changes too much
        7. Look for alternatives
        8. Find new niche media
        9. Enjoy
        10. More people join…
        • Bobby Turkalino
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          812 hours ago

          I would append to #5: “= more ad revenue = more bending over for shareholders”

    • @zecg
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      218 hours ago

      Many such cases

  • @Glitchvid
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    4820 hours ago

    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.

  • @[email protected]
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    4520 hours ago

    Probably wouldn’t get me to leave Lemmy, but I wouldn’t mind another competitor to Reddit.

  • Snot Flickerman
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    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.

    • Brickfrog
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      1319 hours ago

      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

      https://www.theverge.com/social/624073/digg-relaunch-2025

    • kat
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      1320 hours ago

      What? Not following at all

      • Snot Flickerman
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        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.

        • @xenomor
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          1619 hours ago

          Alexis Ohanian is an untrustworthy piece of shit because he’s a crypto scam promoter.

        • kat
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          320 hours ago

          So the Digg founder is attacking her?

          • Snot Flickerman
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            No… Lemmy users and internet people in general are attacking this reformation of Digg and acting like Alexis Ohanian continues to be a piece of shit and that we should expect the same fast path to enshittification.

            I have a hard time thinking that after a long-term relationship with Serena Williams that Ohanian is so out of touch and unable to produce something good. Like I said I am cautiously optimistic

            • @[email protected]
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              Ohanian just joined alongside Project Liberty (no relation to the weirdo right-wing grift with the same name, from what I can tell) to help buy out TikTok.

              His actions seem to be mostly in line with those in favor of consumers. I, too, am cautiously optimistic.

            • Aatube
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              Can’t watch the video right now, what does Ohanian have to do with New Digg?

              • Snot Flickerman
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                319 hours ago

                He is a cofounder of this new Digg. He is involved with buying the site along with Kevin Rose.

            • kat
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              218 hours ago

              See all these names mean nothing to me, so I’m still not following. Are you saying Digg is bad and reddit is good?

              • Snot Flickerman
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                Kevin Rose and Alexis Ohanian bought Digg together. They are relaunching it together. I am saying people are attacking the new Digg without considering that maybe, just maybe, Ohanian could be a good steward of a new social media site. I am willing to wait and see, I think he could potentially do good works in this space.

                It really helps to read articles or watch the newsclips associated with such news.

                • kat
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                  Yeah, just don’t got time to watch the video this post is for. First time hearing these names. And hadn’t heard anybody hating on it.

    • @Lost_My_Mind
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      117 hours ago

      Ok…it kind of seems like your post had the intention of staying on topic, but then did a HARD pivot over to an entirely different topic, and tried to shoehorn it into this topic. But it didn’t work. If I showed someone your post, and didn’t give them context, nobody would guess you were talking about Kevin Rose relaunching digg.

    • NickwithaCOP
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      1620 hours ago

      Alexis isn’t the one fucking up Reddit. Steve Huffman is.

      • Ebby
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        1020 hours ago

        Ahh! You’re right! I got them mixed up!

        Coffee hasn’t kicked in yet.