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.
My mom still maintains her Angelfire site. MySpace still exists. There are historical cities that are ghost towns of what they once were - yet the cities exist. Once you reach a particular space of cultural ubiquity, it gets hard to disappear.
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/
The internet has way too many AI bots, let’s add some more
- Digg logic
AI. BOTS. MILLENIAL INFANTILE DESIGN. CORPORATE SPEAK.
Gee, I wonder why people aren’t tripping over themselves to join this.
That was a wild ride.
Because if there’s anything a link aggregator needs, it’s MORE reasons for people to not read linked articles! Will they also add AI responses? That way users wouldn’t need to bother with reading OR writing!
Idk, its less subjective than the top comment summaries on reddit from users
I see no reason to engage with, or trust anything created by, a bullshit generator. If Digg claims to “care” about the humans, then making the top comment into a brick wall (which has zero accountability) is a funny way of showing it.
But then again, I’m sure their privacy policy also says they care about your privacy.
its not a comment its in the post and its alpha, they’ll prob add an option for it to be closed by default.
You’re right, it’s not a comment. It supersedes comments. Digg is literally showing you an AI-first ecosystem.
This isn’t some UI glitch. It’s a feature they stuck front and center. Digg is trying to start a second honeymoon period with users. Why do you think things would get better after that?
Becuase the app is in alpha lol, its janky everywhere, has no settings or customizability uet, cant even make communities yet, ill give them the benefit of the doubt that you can turn them off or auto hide them
So not only was the AI put front and center, it was also put in first?!
I’ve looked at plenty of alpha software before, and I’ve seen plenty of incomplete features. I understand that one has to give an unfinished product leeway. But devs do not simply accidentally add a whole feature into an app. Or if this was somehow all a huge coincidental mistake, they made a massive PR blunder.
summaries are a non issue, stealing other ppls work to pass of on your own is
Guess this particilar use of ai just isnt an issue for me, I personally have more problems with lemmys use of generative ai and hyping it up
Is there some reason we want brands to join the conversation?
They💸foster💸real💸human💸connections.
Not like itll prevent ppl from clicking on articles that alrady werent
It must be tiring to be this narrow-minded.
I’m looking forward to the “Here’s your first look at the rebooted Reddit” articles in 7 years.
Oh look, another centralized social media platform that will eventually get enshittified
not quite sure it’s not starting out enshittified
If it stars out enshittified then you never had anything to enshittify, just plain shit.
yeah it doesnt look bad at all, thatll prob come later, the ai in use right now are a nonissue imo
I see many issues, including following Google’s lead in building a zero-click internet for the uncurious
True, but its a tiny summary one sentence, im less likely to click the link when I see the fat human written summary at the top of reddit comments
This one is different, it starts enshittified and enshittifies further
Maybe if they allow API access for alternative frontends that eliminate ads and block telemetry. Otherwise, not interested.
So basically you want Digg to undo the things that made us all move from Digg to Reddit?
shrugs in Mbin
nods enthusiastically in Mbin
How’s mbin doing, lately? I switched (back) to Lemmy when kbin shuttered and haven’t kept up with it.
It’s stable, Melroy is both a good dev and a good admin. The software basically fades into the background, which is ideal. There’s been ongoing development, but PeerTube still isn’t supported - and that’s the only negative I’ve got.
The hero no one wanted, or needed
But other than that. Cool
Cool how?
Worthless crap. Thank fuck we’re on a platform free of centralised ownership.
Don’t care.
concepts that have been whipped up in Photoshop aren’t “first looks”
