Death of Digg and Emergence of Mixx

How weird for Digg, one day you are king of the hill next thing you know a new guy is standing by ready to dispatch you to the underworld.  Digg has been floundering for a while with a stagnation of their community but with a recent exodus of top diggers to Mixx seems like their time is near.  The thing that Digg has forgotten is that your community is king and when they ban accounts, bury articles, and allow uncontrolable spam to flourish they are hurting their community.  It could be that many Diggers are just growing up and are getting tired of comment tantrums also.  When you having intelligent conversation it makes sense to show the 8th graders to the door but in Digg not only are the 8th graders in the room but they are running the conversations many times.  (sorry 8th graders)

All of Digg’s flaws are very apparent, and that is what makes Mixx look like a shining gem of Web 2.0.  Mixx is gaining in popularity for what its not as opposed to what it is.  On the surface its another Digg clone, but deeper down is a very savvy community and social tools that are designed to encourage the little guy into Mixx.  Already I am making friends co-browsing for great content to move it up the ladder to the main page.  Instead of discouraging social communication, they encourage it.  Minutes ago I received another email this time from Tunisan Mann:

Hi, sorry to bother in your MiXXingness but I found This on MiXX.
Can anyone help me with the theory this guy is presenting here. I know it’s the "Théorie des jeux" (probably "prisoner’s dilemma"  in english) but I don’t catch his point ! thanks for anyone commenting on that.

    YouTube - How It All Ends
    http://www.mixx.com/videos/15238/youtube-how-it-all-ends

Yes I got an email, I might have even forgotten about Mixx had it not been for these emails of other users sharing content with me because they liked my content.  I was amazed to see emails from Mixx not spamming me but sending me really cool content. So Mixx is not allowing itself to be forgoten about.  Browsing their main page, no linkbait can be seen.  On Digg right on the page “Sex is Safer in Nevada Brothels than Porn Sets“.  Should I rest my case? 

On the web publisher side of things I started to take notice when I started getting traffic to older articles from Mixx.  I felt like suddenly my archives went into syndication and old articles were once again getting traction and fans.  Intrigued I followed the traffic back to Mixx and was warmly received into their community.  It was a strange feeling to actually get a warm response from a online community after seeing the social experiment play out very differently on Digg.  So is this the death of Digg? Its hard to say but I can tell you one thing, I’ve been spending my time on Mixx and hardly miss Digg.  Its like going from Windows to Mac. There’s less noise and crap and you can just get the content you need in a much cleaner atmosphere.

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