• @xenomor@lemmy.world
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    711 month ago

    At the height of digg, I thought Rose was kind of cool. One of those Silicon Valley success stories that used to inspire tech enthusiasts like me. I watched diggnation and bought in to the culture being presented. But I’ll never forget that when digg 4 released, and bombed, Kevin threw his own employees and developers under the bus instead of taking responsibility for strategic mistakes. It was really eye opening to me about him and many of the other frauds that Silicon Valley hoists up as role models. Since then, he’s done nothing to dissuade me that he’s just another talentless tech-bro asshole that got way more attention and money than he deserved.

      • @Head
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        61 month ago

        Why would we assume you’re not being honest? Pretty sure we’re mostly all here due to hating Spez.

    • @CallMeButtLove@lemmy.world
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      51 month ago

      I watched Diggnation a lot too because it felt like TechTV was living on in some little way. I remember thinking Alex Albrecht was pretty cool at the time. I haven’t thought about that in well over a decade. I’d rather not look him up now because I don’t want to know if he’s actually a piece of shit like Tommy Talerico haha.

    • stankmut
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      171 month ago

      They are running a 2004 week, looking back at tech from that era.

  • JohnWorksOP
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    261 month ago

    I will say I kinda rolled my eyes at the end where he said he’d remake digg with ai but the idea of having comments be auto moderated to be detected as contributing to a conversation of the article vs attacking someone seemed interesting.

    • @treadful@lemmy.zip
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      71 month ago

      the idea of having comments be auto moderated to be detected as contributing to a conversation of the article vs attacking someone seemed interesting.

      Echo chamber enforcement.

    • @NOT_RICK@lemmy.world
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      241 month ago

      Yup. He’s VC now. Seems like just another Silicon Valley tech bro, not sure why anyone should care about him anymore.

      • @CallMeButtLove@lemmy.world
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        31 month ago

        I love animals and am against animal cruelty but I’d yeet the hell out of a raccoon if it was attacking my dog. I miss you Maddie girl.

      • SkaveRat
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        21 month ago

        That’s a while raccoon army he’s throwing

  • Todd Bonzalez
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    111 month ago

    A lot of people seem disappointed that Rose is a privileged untalented asshole now.

    If it’s any consolation, he’s always been that way. Here’s episode 1 of his first show “The Broken”, where his genius hack is to steal someone’s pickup order from a restaurant: https://youtu.be/tNjoo9TuCHY