Digg launches its new Reddit rival to the public | TechCrunch
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Digg, a reboot of an earlier social news site, is now relaunching as a Reddit competitor focused on communities.

Lots of venture capital money behind it. I wonder how quickly the enshitification will begin.

    • Die Martin Die@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      111·
      2 days ago

      I think it loads a community named digg(dot)com on your local instance

      Edit: could be a Voyager (mis)feature?

      Edit 2: Jerboa doesn’t even react when clicking that link

      • bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        14·
        2 days ago

        The raw comment is this:

        [Digg.com](digg.com) didn't load for me, good start 😅

        It’s missing the https:// protocol, so the link is assumed to be relative to the current page you’re on. It should have been formatted as

        [Digg.com](https://digg.com/) and then it’ll look like: Digg.com

        • wjs018@piefed.socialEnglish
          1·
          2 days ago

          Looks like this is a feature for most markdown parsers. In piefed, the same thing happens. I wrote most of the customizations for parsing markdown, but nothing to create relative links like this except for footnotes. So, it must be the default behavior of the markdown library we are using.