Digg is currently allowing users to pay $5 to get in first and help test the platform.
It was created by the same people as reddit, and will ultimately suffer the same fate as reddit. It solves nothing, but users will prefer it because a smooth UX is so important, and Lemmy doesn’t offer that yet.
Surpass?
Only if you want to dive back into corporate bullshit
Most people care more about UX than anything else. So yea sadly I think Digg will surpass Lemmy, just like Bluesky did to Mastodon