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Here's your first look at the rebooted Digg | TechCrunch

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Submitted ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨MolecularCactus1324@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨technology@lemmy.world⁩

https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/18/heres-your-first-look-at-the-rebooted-digg/

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  • LWD@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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 attention again.

    Beneath posts, Digg is leveraging AI to summarize the article’s content.

    And they lost me again.

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    • natecox@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      That was a wild ride.

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    • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The internet has way too many AI bots, let’s add some more

      - Digg logic

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    • Pirate@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      AI. BOTS. MILLENIAL INFANTILE DESIGN. CORPORATE SPEAK.

      Gee, I wonder why people aren’t tripping over themselves to join this.

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    • doctortofu@reddthat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      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!

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    • dil@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Idk, its less subjective than the top comment summaries on reddit from users Image

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      • LWD@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        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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      • SaltSong@startrek.website ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Is there some reason we want brands to join the conversation?

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      • dil@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Not like itll prevent ppl from clicking on articles that alrady werent

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    • Bosht@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      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.

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      • Soapbox@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        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.

        techcrunch.com/…/kevin-rose-and-alexis-ohanian-ac…

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    • ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      What’s wrong with AI summaries? AI has it’s uses. A long as it’s just adding some metadata I don’t see nothing wrong with it.

      For me the big questions is what are they going to do to stop bots, spam and internet points farming. So far they didn’t reveal any plans.

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      • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        What’s wrong with AI summaries?

        It never stops there though, they never just write their summary and leave it alone they always have to have the AI do more and more until it eventually takes over the entire platform.

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      • atrielienz@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        The thing that’s mostly wrong with AI summaries is that people don’t click through to the page the summary summarizes. So those sites don’t get ad revenue. That’s ad revenue is the backbone of the internet for a lot of sites. If there’s no site posting the information then the AI has nothing to summarize and provide an overview of. The pivot to AI LLM’s is likely to kill the companies who aggregate links, and they’re pushing for it hoping to make it profitable in the long term because they’ve been actively enshittifying ad aggregation via search for the purposes of big number must go up (you know, for the shareholders). It’s defeatist to the current business model of most of the internet. And the shareholders do not care so long as they get their money.

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    • tonytins@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Because that worked soo well for Apple.

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      • MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        And they realized it and fixed their mistake… hopefully…

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    • chunes@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It must be tiring to be this narrow-minded.

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  • besselj@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Oh look, another centralized social media platform that will eventually get enshittified

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    • Zachariah@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      not quite sure it’s not starting out enshittified

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      • dil@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        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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      • scarabic@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        If it stars out enshittified then you never had anything to enshittify, just plain shit.

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    • zecg@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      This one is different, it starts enshittified and enshittifies further

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  • DirkMcCallahan@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’m looking forward to the “Here’s your first look at the rebooted Reddit” articles in 7 years.

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  • Sev@fed.nullterra.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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.

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    • PresidentCamacho@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Because those shitty patterns make the platform valuable. It’s about creating investor value, end user be damned.

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    • Jimmycakes@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      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 too man guy.

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  • mctoasterson@reddthat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Maybe if they allow API access for alternative frontends that eliminate ads and block telemetry. Otherwise, not interested.

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  • VirgilMastercard@reddthat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Worthless crap. Thank fuck we’re on a platform free of centralised ownership.

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  • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The hero no one wanted, or needed

    But other than that. Cool

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    • elbarto777@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Cool how?

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  • cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    let me guess it's ai slop

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  • floo@retrolemmy.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    No thanks

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  • db2@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Don’t care.

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  • bieren@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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.

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    • MolecularCactus1324@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Digg has been basically dead for 15 years.

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    • TeddE@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      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.

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  • GreenKnight23@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    concepts that have been whipped up in Photoshop aren’t “first looks”

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    • ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The article says an iOS app was released to testers.

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      • GreenKnight23@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        but that’s not my first look as the title states.

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