MMW: Digg will far surpass Lemmy, because it will have a smooth user experience.
Digg is currently allowing users to pay $5 to get in first and help test the platform.
It was created by the same people as reddit, and will ultimately suffer the same fate as reddit. It solves nothing, but users will prefer it because a smooth UX is so important, and Lemmy doesn't offer that yet.
Diggs earned, gems, leaderboards? All the crap from Digg and Reddit that disgust me.
If they can attract and retain all the idiots, it will be a good thing.
Same, but sadly these platforms will continue to dominate until and alternative like Lemmy offers good UX
Surpass?
Only if you want to dive back into corporate bullshit
Most people care more about UX than anything else. So yea sadly I think Digg will surpass Lemmy, just like Bluesky did to Mastodon
Federated social media is much more resilient against censorship than corporately held social media.
Something that's free with zero or minimally intrusive ads is what attracts users. Moreso than UI/UX.
That's simply not true, else Mastadon wouldn't be a fraction of the size of Bluesky.
UX is everything when it comes to user adoption, most people don't care enough about other factors.
I don't know about other countries, but it has 0% to do with UX in the US. It can't have anything to do with it, because Americans in the main won't even try federated social media. Well, unless you have an expensive definition of UX that includes having a corporate logo.
Despite the mythology about freedom, the US is a fairly repressive culture. One can do and be unusual things, but one must expect to be judged and shit on at best, or murdered at worst. So Americans as a whole are terrified of stepping out of line. That's a big reason why we love our corporate brands so much. They are 'safe' markers of identity, a social seal of approval, if you will. You can't be weird or different if everybody else is doing it, too.
The new Digg has some residual brand recognition from the old Digg, and a corporation behind it. That's why it'll do better in the US than Lemmy.
Lemmy has a smooth UX if you are using a custom client though
The vast majority of people don't even know what that is.
I didn't even know there was an official client, and I've been on Lemmy for two years
Those who quit reddit after they started killing off custom clients know, I bet. There are dozens of us!
And to be honest, the $5 Charge that they'll apparently donate isn't a bad idea to combat bots.
SomethingAwful can afford to ask for money because they have good content and dedicated people though.