Comment on Digg’s open beta shuts down after just two months, blaming AI bot spam

ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  If it was, it was a bad stratagy.

  AI is the only industry that is somehow nonprofitable, without customers, and yet also propping up the economy right now.

  Just waiting for this stupid bubble to pop

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  • ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I mean, reddit only got big because Digg made some very stupid moves before, so … pretty on brand

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    • daychilde@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Reddit was doing fine before the influx from Digg. That’s one of the reasons people migrated to reddit in the first place - because it was already viable. That said, it was an influx of users, for sure.

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      • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        It was better before the influx from Digg imo

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• silentjohn@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  “we’re reddit, but with AI!”

  I noped so hard away from digg

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  • TheSeveralJourneysOfReemus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Doesn’t reddit already have ai?

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    • silentjohn@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I guess. I don’t use Reddit’s AI. But Digg specifically billed itself as Reddit + AI. I got early beta access, and it was exactly that: Reddit + shitty AI summaries.

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    • MinoriMirariRProductions@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Ai HyperFictional. Don’t get lost in allat.

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• garretble@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Right? Weren’t they making some AI podcast or something as well?

  None of that sounded good.

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