[HN Gopher] Digg.com relaunch public beta is live
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       Digg.com relaunch public beta is live
        
       Author : andrewblossom
       Score  : 16 points
       Date   : 2026-01-14 21:04 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (digg.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (digg.com)
        
       | FearNotDaniel wrote:
       | Something went wrong!
        
       | scottiebarnes wrote:
       | is that a daily ai generated podcast?
       | 
       | and ai generated icons...
        
       | busymom0 wrote:
       | I get: 504 Gateway Time-out
        
       | tracker1 wrote:
       | I used to like Digg and enjoy the podcast a lot.
       | 
       | No idea what the tech behind this site is, or what server(s) it's
       | running on, but kind of clearly not enough for the hug of death
       | it seems to be getting... can't really even use it (slow).
        
         | barelysapient wrote:
         | I loved digg too.
         | 
         | So weird it's HOD. Scaling tech much easier with modern infra.
         | 
         | Still hoping hacker news front pages my Rick and Morty inter-
         | dimensional cable inspired news site someday.
        
       | Aboutplants wrote:
       | How has Kevin Rose escaped legal ramifications from all of his
       | NFT grifts he hawked in the past few years?
        
         | billy99k wrote:
         | If celebrities can hawk rug pull crypto coins, I seriously
         | doubt there will be any legal ramifications for him.
        
       | mrkpdl wrote:
       | Again?
        
       | al_borland wrote:
       | I joined during the private beta and already gave up on it about
       | a month ago. I ran into too many users that brought their Reddit
       | toxicity with them. I couldn't take it. It looks like I only
       | lasted a month; it seemed to start off OK, but went downhill
       | quickly.
       | 
       | I see they launched the custom communities now, that didn't exist
       | yet the last time I visited. Just scrolling through the front
       | page, it looks like there is even less activity than when it was
       | private, which seems concerning.
        
         | UqWBcuFx6NV4r wrote:
         | That's the thing with these social network nostalgia projects.
         | People don't want to admit that the _we_ have changed. I
         | remember getting quite excited by and later disillusioned by
         | BlueSky. As good-intentioned as people claim to be, they all
         | bring their learned behaviours with them when they set up camp.
         | All these new places do is end up being another venue for
         | people to be dicks to one-another. The massive social
         | deprogramming we have to do is going to be much slower and much
         | more complex than simply building a platform with 'better
         | mechanics' or whatever, and I doubt it's going to happen any
         | time soon if at all.
        
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