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Robert Kevin Rose (born 1977) is an American Internet entrepreneur who co-founded Revision3, Digg, Pownce, and Milk. He also served as production assistant and co-host at TechTV's The Screen Savers. From 2012 to 2015, he was a venture partner at GV.

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[–] urhovaldeko@lemmy.world 85 points 2 months ago (8 children)
[–] tsugu@slrpnk.net 78 points 2 months ago (5 children)
[–] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 61 points 2 months ago (2 children)

And the Apollo developer is apparently consulting on the mobile experience in one last “fuck you” to Reddit.

[–] fluxion@lemmy.world 21 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Lol, if they don't blunder it i might actually check it out here and there just as a fuck you to reddit

[–] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago

Curiosity and nostalgia will definitely get me to check it out. I enjoyed digg before the v4 explosion that drove everyone to reddit.

[–] Scrollone@feddit.it 6 points 2 months ago

Why would you? We have Lemmy now.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 18 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Apollo was like the main one right? I was a rif user. Apollo's dev is the one that spez literally lied about?

[–] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 23 points 2 months ago

Apollo was mostly a one man band, although I think Christian occasionally had someone helping out with services. The client side was basically all him.

And yeah, Christian posted all of Spez’s comms and showed that Spez was lying to the community.

[–] TheGreatSnacku@lemm.ee 39 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Yeah they just had some bugs last go around and needed a bit of time (give or take 13 years) to fix them.

[–] Psythik@lemm.ee 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Kevin Rose is in charge again? I thought he sold Digg after the massive failure that was v4 back in 2010.

Either way, I'm glad to see that digg is coming back. Reddit needs more competition. I'm hopeful that they will succeed this time around and steal back the user base that migrated to reddit and helped make them become the evil giant they are today (I am one such migrant).

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 2 points 2 months ago

Insanity is doing the same thing and expecting a different result

[–] metallic_substance@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

lol. About 10 (maybe more) years too late

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

They’re joining the fediverse.

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 16 points 2 months ago

So did facebook... Deny the parasite engagement

[–] MolecularCactus1324@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] shittydwarf@sh.itjust.works 24 points 2 months ago

What is dead can never die

[–] gnutrino@programming.dev 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That is not dead which can eternal lie, and with strange eons even Digg may come back.

[–] BodilessGaze@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Kevin Rose Digg wgah'nagl fhtagn

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 4 points 2 months ago
[–] brokenlcd@feddit.it 8 points 2 months ago

It died so hard it underflowed and came back to life. Poorly most likely.

[–] can@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

And they even hired the Apollo app dev

[–] urhovaldeko@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Really? Apollo was the best client, kinda miss it and the reddit that used to be.

[–] can@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

They hired him as an advisor

ICYMI: Christian Selig, creator of Apollo, the beloved (and now dearly departed) 3rd party Reddit app, has officially joined Digg as an advisor. Kevin shared the news in a recent update, but if you missed it: yes, that Christian is now helping us shape the future of Digg’s mobile experience. We’re bringing back a classic Digg Video format to mark the occasion: the AMA. The idea is simple. You ask the questions, you vote them up, and the host just plays moderator between you, the community and the guest.

Have you tried the voyager app for Lemmy?

[–] urhovaldeko@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Yeah, that’s what I’m using.

[–] Scrollone@feddit.it 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, I'm sad the developer didn't make a fork for Lemmy.

But Voyager has a similar user experience and it's for Lemmy.

[–] urhovaldeko@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

That’s what I’m using now :)

[–] hopesdead@startrek.website 1 points 2 months ago

It was restarted in like the last year.

[–] kratoz29@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago

I missed out on Digg and started right with Reddit, if it is alive or back, it would be a fun experiment (or maybe not a fun one).

[–] darklamer@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Rose just bought the name back. It’s relaunching soon.