• MNByChoice
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    20 hours ago

    Who? Why should we care about them taking over? Is this seen as positive for the platform?

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      19 hours ago

      Reddit (and by extension, Lemmy) likely wouldn’t exist without Kevin Rose. He both popularized the concept of user driven link aggregators and royally screwed digg during a big redesign, pushing the users to reddit.

      Alexis Ohanian is generally considered a “better” cofounder of reddit (or atleast, not spez). I think the two combining forces to relaunch an OG site is newsworthy.

      If it’s a positive, will remain to be seen. I won’t go back to a closed/non-federated platform, personally.

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        18 hours ago

        Nor will I and so I would argue this actually isn’t newsworthy here.

        I don’t need to hear about anyone getting a bunch of money to cook up a shit stew in case anyone was wondering. You can miss me with that “news.”

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      19 hours ago

      Kevin Rose is one of the co-founders of Digg, and Alexis Ohanian is one of the co-founders of Reddit. Considering the “success” of both sites it could be a big deal, but more than likely it’ll just try to pass itself off as a Reddit alternative that’ll eventually go to shit or implement a bunch of AI and crypto bullshit.