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.
this post was submitted on 18 Jun 2025
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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.
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.
Because those shitty patterns make the platform valuable. It's about creating investor value, end user be damned.
Well you see there's gonna be a digg store where all your diggs can get you a virtual hat for your diggdug Ai virtual toon man guy.
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
That was a wild ride.
AI. BOTS. MILLENIAL INFANTILE DESIGN. CORPORATE SPEAK.
Gee, I wonder why people aren't tripping over themselves to join this.
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.
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Is there some reason we want brands to join the conversation?
They💸foster💸real💸human💸connections.
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Because that worked soo well for Apple.
And they realized it and fixed their mistake… hopefully…
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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
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This one is different, it starts enshittified and enshittifies further
I'm looking forward to the "Here's your first look at the rebooted Reddit" articles in 7 years.
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.
let me guess it's ai slop
No thanks
Don't care.
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