18 pointsby andrewblossom3 hours ago9 comments
  • al_borland2 hours ago
    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.

    • UqWBcuFx6NV4ran hour ago
      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.
  • tracker12 hours ago
    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).

    • AISnakeOil4 minutes ago
      I use to enjoy diggnation, but now every episode is about them claiming not to be alcoholics when they clearly are.
    • barelysapient2 hours ago
      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.

  • bhouston44 minutes ago
    I am old enough to remember the first two relaunches. I think this is the third relaunch right since it was beaten by Reddit.
  • FearNotDaniel2 hours ago
    Something went wrong!
  • karunamurtian hour ago
    Will binky79 makes a comeback?
  • busymom02 hours ago
    I get: 504 Gateway Time-out
  • Aboutplants2 hours ago
    How has Kevin Rose escaped legal ramifications from all of his NFT grifts he hawked in the past few years?
    • billy99k2 hours ago
      If celebrities can hawk rug pull crypto coins, I seriously doubt there will be any legal ramifications for him.
  • scottiebarnes2 hours ago
    is that a daily ai generated podcast?

    and ai generated icons...

  • mrkpdl2 hours ago
    Again?