Digg’s officially launched now for about a month and it’s… really underwhelming.
The “Most Dugg” posts by upvotes as of this post:
+110, +107, +89, +86, +84, +84, +79, +79 (roughly in the last 24 hours)
As compared to Lemmy/Piefed/Mbin as seen on Lemmy.world (Top in last 24 hours):
+1.22k, +952, +855, +751, +669, +646, +620, +612
That’s really poor from Digg honestly.
You halfway answered your own question there. Just like in games and movies, they are lazily leaning on nostalgia in the hopes that it will magically generate some money.
that ship has long sailed to REDDIT, and they arnt going back.
You think? With those things you mention, you can make a product that pushes the right buttons, hits the right notes, and be done with it, letting it sell itself on its own from that point forward.
Now compare that to relaunching a major social media platform and keeping it alive with investor money until it eventually and hopefully ‘makes it.’ Seems like a considerably different thing to me.
I’m reminded of the Arsenio Hall Show which ran from '89-94, did well for its time, but whose shelf life kind of naturally expired. They tried to bring it back in 2013, but cancelled it after a single season, because… nostalgia could only prop it up for so long. Or something like that.