DiggDead
We're a gaming site sure, but I think our broader focus is on using computers for entertainment purposes, and it's not as if sites like Digg and its aggregation successor Reddit don't gameify their workings to a significant extent, what with the reputation and the karma and the scoring […]
There was also more acquisitions of AI companies by bigger players, Firefox has hinted at a logo change, Digg was back but now its gone again (for awhile) and more.
#Firefox #Digg
La plateforme communautaire #Digg, relancée il y a peu et qui se voulait une alternative aux réseaux sociaux, referme déjà ses portes à cause d’une invasion de bots sophistiqués pilotés par IA. Ce qui en dit long sur l’état actuel d’Internet hélas.
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Digg's Brief Relaunch Exposes a Troubling Truth About Today's Internet
#Digg #AiBots #TechFail #AusNews
thedailyperspective.org/article/2026-03-16-diggs...
Sad thing, but the bot problem seems to be an enormous one. It did not feel like that though. Loved it to browse #Digg in the morning.
Digg laid off staff and pulled its app amid rampant bot activity and tough competition. Kevin Rose returns full-time to lead a smaller team in rebuilding the platform.
#Digg
Hui… #Digg ist nach dem Reboot schon wieder in einer Reboot-Phase?
Hoffe, die bekommen das hin
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Digg announces layoffs and app shutdown as it plans a major overhaul. Founder Kevin Rose returns to lead the transformation. #Digg #TechNews #Startup Link: thedailytechfeed.com/digg-restruc...
Bummer, hate to hear that #Digg is shutting down only after a few months. I have been using the beta application and thought it was genuinely better than #Reddit .
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Hey @christianselig - sorry about #Digg shutting down (for now). Y’all really did an amazing job on the app! Was quite lovely.
Ever think about developing for something in the fediverse? #Lemmy, #Mastodon, maybe a #Bluesky + Mastodon merge app?
Just curious.
OK. Where are the questions I asked on #Digg? Where are the answers I received on Digg?
Whatever this thing is evolving into, do they expect users to trust them again?
Just two months after its comeback by Kevin Rose and Alexis Ohanian, Digg shuts down citing overwhelming AI bot spam, signaling challenges in social news platforms.
#Digg
Digg restructures company, lays off staff, and discontinues app amid bot challenges
🤖 IA: It's not clickbait ✅
👥 Usuarios: It's not clickbait ✅
#digg #layoffs #socialmedia
View full AI summary:
Digg 앱 서비스 종료와 구조 조정이 남긴 3가지 시사점
https://bit.ly/4s8dzOC
#Digg #앱서비스종료 #구조조정 #인터넷환경변화 #IT뉴스 #커뮤니티공유 #시사점
Digg shuts down because of bots. They plan to return
9to5mac.com/2026/03/13/digg-shuts-do...
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Digg ferme à cause des robots. Ils planifient revenir
// Article en anglais //
#Digg
R.I.P. Digg. Again. Two months after attaining open beta, Digg has died. Again.
Digg states that the site was completely overrun by AI bots that they could not successfully contain nor moderate, and had no choice but to shut down.
#digg #cityofheroes
Digg's short-lived reboot is on pause, and a sizeable proportion of staff are being laid off, but the story isn't over. Founder Kevin Rose sold the company in 2012 but repurchased it, alongside Alexis Ohanian, in 2025, relaunching it in open beta in January 2026 as "the front page of the […]
Can't say I had massively high hopes for #Digg reboot, but I find it slightly galling that they claim AI abuse for it shutting down, yet embraced AI summaries on the content posted which deprived the sources of click through Ad revenue
Live by the AI etc..
Digg's Rapid Unravelling Reveals the Deep Cost of Bot Warfare
#Digg #SocialMedia #AIBots #TechNews #AusNews
thedailyperspective.org/article/2026-03-13-diggs...
A Hard Reset, and What Comes Next Building on the internet in 2026 is different. We learned that the hard way. Today we're sharing difficult news: we've made the decision to significantly downsize the Digg team. This wasn't a decision made lightly, and it's important to say clearly: this is one of the strongest groups of people we've ever had the privilege of working with. This is not a reflection of their talent, their effort, or their belief in what we were building. It's a reflection of the brutal reality of finding product-market fit in an environment that has fundamentally changed. We faced an unprecedented bot problem When the Digg beta launched, we immediately noticed posts from SEO spammers noting that Digg still carried meaningful Google link authority. Within hours, we got a taste of what we'd only heard rumors about. The internet is now populated, in meaningful part, by sophisticated AI agents and automated accounts. We knew bots were part of the landscape, but we didn't appreciate the scale, sophistication, or speed at which they'd find us. We banned tens of thousands of accounts. We deployed internal tooling and industry-standard external vendors. None of it was enough. When you can't trust that the votes, the comments, and the engagement you're seeing are real, you've lost the foundation a community platform is built on. This isn't just a Digg problem. It's an internet problem. But it hit us harder because trust is the product.
LOL #digg shuts down .. again.
Digg pulls the plug on its open beta after just two months, blaming a flood of AI‑generated bot spam. CEO Justin Mezzell says moderation woes hit hard. Curious how this affects the tech revival? Dive in. #AIBotSpam #Digg #TechRevival
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Adding to my growing list of reasons to distrust AI... 🤖
Digg recently shut down operations due to unprecedented damage from AI bots.
This makes me so mad! 😡🤬
#AI #TechNews #Digg
So.....
I used to be a member of digg.com. They started it back up, and I jump at the chance to get in. For those who don't know, digg was the original of what Reddit became. I started a Linux-audio group there, and in a few days, it had grown to 60 people.
Today, I went to sign in, and found […]
I guess I’m done with #Digg, again. What a joke…
Digg added video posts today. 1080p, 60fps, up to 2.5GB!
digg.com/digg/6zRpAZm...
#Digg #video #socialmedia #website
