[svlug] time for a Digg fork?

[Christian Einfeldt]

hi

On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 5:09 PM, Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com> wrote:

> Quoting Christian Einfeldt (einfeldt at gmail.com):
>
> > Maybe we should respond by creating a separate service with a completely
> > different URL that just mirrors the FOSS stories there, and stop going
> to
> > digg itself.
>
> You'll notice that this is what I've been recommending near the bottom
> of http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Essays/winolj.html , for quite a few years.


Thanks for that link.  It is a really informative page.

I guess your comment above refers to Pligg, referenced on that linked page.
You make quite a few good points on that page about the dangers of Web
2.0hosting our data, etc and also a good point about how the leaders
of the
open source movement are able to craft similar solutions on their own
servers.

But Pligg is just a tool, not a website, and I am not aware of any
Pligg-enabled site that has sufficient traffic to compete with for traffic
with Digg, as Digg has ploughed a lot of work into marketing their site, and
it is that traffic that is the basis of my concern.  I am thinking that
proprietary vendors are using Digg as an infomercial for their services.

So it is not a code problem; it is a problem of Digg having had a successful
business plan that resulted in them getting lots of capital and thus being a
huge traffic magnet.  We need to hold Digg's feet to the fire by focusing
attention of general end users on stuff that is going on in the Free Open
Source Software world, and that means gaining more attention on Digg's fp.
The best way to do that is to get more focus for FOSS voters on Digg, which
means getting our own Digg mirror page or something similar.
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