Digg's new app is basic, but a great start (www.theverge.com)
from xc2215x@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world on 24 Aug 11:11
https://lemmy.world/post/34901790

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asudox@lemmy.asudox.dev on 24 Aug 11:16 next collapse

Another Reddit with AI builtin.

Tetsuo@jlai.lu on 24 Aug 11:40 collapse

I was wondering, is there anything preventing AI to train on the content on Lemmy ?

jeena@piefed.jeena.net on 24 Aug 11:56 next collapse

Difficult, even if your instance blocks it, copies of it are all over the place.

MajinBlayze@lemmy.world on 24 Aug 16:53 collapse

If you wanted to train on Lemmy data, just pretend to be an instance and have all the public instances push their data to you. No scraping required, and you get all the metadata and context you could possibly want

asudox@lemmy.asudox.dev on 24 Aug 21:08 collapse

Yep. We have Fediseer for such instances though.

simple@piefed.social on 24 Aug 12:11 collapse

No

Deestan@lemmy.world on 24 Aug 11:35 next collapse

Rich guys make a Reddit mee-too, wearing the clothes of a long-dead website.

It has no unique content, is not the center forum of any community, no untapped niche to fill.

PROMISINGGGHHHH says the journalist

Edit: I fucking hate mainstream tech journalism.

When one person says it’s sunny and another says it is raining, the role of the journalist is not to report the claims. The journalist’s job is to look out the window and check.

When one person says it is sunny, the tech journalist’s job is to sit in their windowless sweat cubicle and go “Wow! I am excited by how sunny it is!”

Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world on 24 Aug 12:01 next collapse

If you are going to use a platform by American criminal types (Rose’s last project was a “NFT collection” pump and dump called Moonbirds), you might as well go with Reddit.

ABetterTomorrow@sh.itjust.works on 24 Aug 17:39 collapse

Where is decent/good tech journalism these days?

ernest314@lemmy.zip on 24 Aug 19:55 collapse

404 media, Taylor Lorenz

prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works on 24 Aug 12:25 next collapse

I’m a Digg groundbreaker, just because I wanted to see what the hubbub was about.

It’s definitely not a Reddit rip off, in fact Lemmy is closer to a “Reddit ripoff” than dig.

That said it is definitely being auto moderated by AI and they’re absolutely using AI all over the place but saying it’s “human at the core and tech at the edges”

If you’re on Digg it’s possible to be in regular contact with the devs and they kind of dance around how much AI agents are being used.

That said the AI tldr is actually really cool only because of how horribly it butchers some articles and you get to read wild stuff like JD Vance shooting Trump in the face for peeing the bed because the AI read the ads also.

Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world on 24 Aug 13:44 next collapse

“human at the core and tech at the edges”

Funny stuff, this how you know they have zero respect for their users.

Devmapall@lemmy.zip on 24 Aug 19:18 next collapse

“because AI reads that ads also” is fucking funny

You’d think summarizing just the article is something a LLM could do. Ah well

person420@lemmynsfw.com on 24 Aug 20:46 next collapse

Do you have any invites left? I’d love one if you do.

squaresinger@lemmy.world on 25 Aug 06:36 collapse

Wasn’t reddit the digg ripoff?

IIRC digg was the old reddit until it collapsed for being shitty.

prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works on 25 Aug 11:43 collapse

There were a handful of aggregates but Reddit was less user focused than Digg was.

Reddit didn’t have comments initially, just voting news stories and topics. Comments killed Reddit by blowing it up for the masses

Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 25 Aug 18:20 collapse

I don’t think comments killed Reddit. The mass-adoption of smartphones did.

prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works on 25 Aug 18:29 collapse

Reddit became about the comments not the content, imo the glory days were pre-comment, despite having been active until the api-exodus

MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world on 24 Aug 17:05 next collapse

Ha, fuck no.

HyperfocusSurfer@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 26 Aug 21:00 collapse

I’d rather btdigg, tho