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Slashdot -> Fark -> Digg -> Reddit -> Lemmy (beehaw.org)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's funny to read this article about the death of Digg again:

In reality, Digg changed their business model and pretended that they didn’t. That is something that is unacceptable with communities and won’t be forgotten. Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian hit the nail on the head in an open letter to (now former) Digg CEO – Kevin Rose:

“You chose to grow with venture capital and you’ve no doubt (I hope) taken some money off the table in your Series C round. I say this because this new version of digg reeks of VC meddling. It’s cobbling together features from more popular sites and departing from the core of digg, which was to “give the power back to the people.”

https://searchengineland.com/digg-v4-how-to-successfully-kill-a-community-50450>

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh sweet, sweet irony.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

At least Ohanian is married to Serena, and left reddit 10 years ago. Spez (aka Steve Huffman) is a fucking piece of shit that betrayed both of his co-founders

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Tbh, I totally forgot that Ohanian left Reddit like 10 years ago 🤦

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

They removed Aaron from the list of founders at some point.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Sadly, this is the only logical conclusion of things that are run for profit. Here's hoping the federated model proves more resistant in the long run.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Doctorow has it right. Enshittification.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Doctorow’s great, first heard about him from the srsly wrong podcast

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Funding, even in a not-for-profit sense, will always be an issue. Wikipedia struggles, but kinda makes it work. We're going to need something creative for the fediverse...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

that doesn't really hold because Wikipedia does not struggle with funding in the sense you're thinking: https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/wikipedia-millions-bank-beg/

so, survival doesn't necessarily have to be at stake

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I donate to them fairly regularly, Wikipedia is fucking great!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In the medium run federated instances will have to be financed somehow as well. We'll see how that goes.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@amki @Luxsidus

volunteer donations are more than enough to pay for a fedi instance

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Depends on how many volunteers you have who are actually willing to donate