A few observations

  • interface is cleaner than Reddit (some people will probably complain about the space wasted, even in "compact" mode, but most users should be fine)
  • there is only a handful of communities existing at the moment, and no option to create more. See picture for the list.
  • feature-wise, it looks very similar to Reddit/Lemmy/Piefed: upvotes/downvotes, comments, sort types

Based on what happened with Twitter, Bluesky and Mastodon, we can probably imagine that Digg might be a new actor that quite a few people will join, when the people the most aware of enshittification of corporate platforms will stay on Lemmy/Mbin/Piefed

Random thought: maybe a "lifestyle" community could be a way to encompass a few communities that struggle to stay active

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[–] 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

To me, if it doesn't have the basic users running communities foundation of Reddit and the Fediverse - it just isn't a Reddit alternative. Communities would be more like hashtags.

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  • [–] [S] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Sidebar of a community

    I guess they plan to have user-managed communities later, otherwise indeed they wouldn't be able to compete with Reddit

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