Why the fuck would I want my link aggregator to have a leaderboard?
People competing for fake internet points is already driving some of the worst patterns we’re seeing on the social web. Imagine putting that shit front and center.
Is anyone else amazed that digg just won’t die? How many other popular sites have come and gone, and yet, digg is always lurking in the shadows.
Digg has been basically dead for 15 years.
this would-be Reddit competitor, built for the AI era
Oh no…
The founders think that the internet is being flooded with bots and AI agents, which will create demand for online communities like Digg that foster real human connections.
Okay, Digg has my cautious attention…
Beneath posts, Digg is leveraging AI to summarize the article’s content.
And they lost me.
All valid points, and he base truth around all this is there’s no way this is the original Digg anyway. Someone bought the name rights and have Diggs’ corpse strung up with a painted on smile.
I’m pretty sure I read the other day that it’s the original founders of Digg (Kevin Rose) who bought back the corpse and are leading this with VC funding.
https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/05/kevin-rose-and-alexis-ohanian-acquire-digg/
That was a wild ride.
Oh look, another centralized social media platform that will eventually get enshittified
