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Hoo boy. #Digg is dead… again. #Crapitalism strikes again. So fun. #capitalism #internet #aislop

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Bots have killed #Digg but not #Lemmy or #Piefed. 🤔

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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...

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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.

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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?

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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

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Digg restructures company, lays off staff, and discontinues app amid bot challenges Digg, the link-sharing platform originally popularized by Kevin Rose, announced significant staff layoffs and the removal of its mobile app as part of a company-wide restructuring effort. Despite these changes, the company confirmed it will continue operations. Kevin Rose will now focus full-time on Digg, while maintaining his advisory role at True Ventures. The platform had aimed to provide an improved community forum experience with better moderation and verified user accounts, but was quickly overwhelmed by bot activity. Tens of thousands of automated accounts compromised the reliability of user votes, a core feature for ranking content. Digg deployed internal tools and partnered with external vendors to fight bots, but the scale of the issue proved unmanageable. CEO Justin Mezzell highlighted that the problem extends beyond Digg, affecting the broader internet ecosystem. The startup had also faced intense competition from established platforms like Reddit, making user acquisition and engagement challenging. While the app has been removed from the App Store, a small team remains tasked with rebuilding Digg into a differentiated platform. Meanwhile, the Diggnation podcast will continue, maintaining a connection with the community. The company's ownership involves Kevin Rose, Alexis Ohanian, and venture partners, who acquired the remnants of Digg to revive and reshape it.

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

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Digg 앱 서비스 종료와 구조 조정이 남긴 3가지 시사점 - 기술 덕후 한가닥 한때 링크 공유 플랫폼의 대명사였던 Digg가 결국 백기를 들었습니다. 최근 Digg는 대규모 인력 감축과 함께 모바일 앱 서비스를 전면 종료한다고 발표했습니다. 커뮤니티 기반의 정보 공유라는 본연의 가치를 되찾기 위해 회사를 재정비하겠다는 계획이지만, 그 이면에는 수많은 기업이

Digg 앱 서비스 종료와 구조 조정이 남긴 3가지 시사점

https://bit.ly/4s8dzOC

#Digg #앱서비스종료 #구조조정 #인터넷환경변화 #IT뉴스 #커뮤니티공유 #시사점

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Digg closing down

Digg closing down

If I were #piefed I’d offer a #Digg skin asap for servers…

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Digg shuts down two months after highly anticipated return - 9to5Mac Digg CEO Justin Mezzell announced today that the site is going offline as a result of “an unprecedented bot problem.” Here are the details.

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

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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

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Original post on flipboard.social

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 […]

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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..

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Digg's Rapid Unravelling Reveals the Deep Cost of Bot Warfare Digg's relaunch collapsed in 60 days due to overwhelming AI bot infiltration. A cautionary tale about the challenges facing trust-based social platforms.

Digg's Rapid Unravelling Reveals the Deep Cost of Bot Warfare

#Digg #SocialMedia #AIBots #TechNews #AusNews

thedailyperspective.org/article/2026-03-13-diggs...

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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.

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.

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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

🔗 aidailypost.com/news/digg-sh...

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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

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Original post on mastodon.online

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 […]

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I guess I’m done with #Digg, again. What a joke…

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Native video is live on Digg | digg Big news. You can now upload videos directly to Digg. Starting today, video uploads are live on web, iOS, and Android. Upload, post, and it plays right in your feed alongside text, images, and gall...

Digg added video posts today. 1080p, 60fps, up to 2.5GB!

digg.com/digg/6zRpAZm...

#Digg #video #socialmedia #website

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What? I subscribed to the newsletter in November 2025, and I'm not aware of your service being online yet.

That's some #digg move. They had a newsletter for interested users, too. And then went online without telling any of them.

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#digg

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Toads in my AI News and announcements from the Python community for the week of Jan 26th, 2026

🎙️ Python Bytes 467: Toads in my AI
with @mkennedy.codes and @brianokken.bsky.social
pythonbytes.fm/467
#Python #GreyNoise #tprof #TOAD #FastAPI #Digg

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a baby in a black shirt is walking through a hallway . ALT: a baby in a black shirt is walking through a hallway .

The new #Digg is the new #Twitter / #X.

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¿Por qué vuelven los foros de Internet en plena era scroll? Digg reaparece con Kevin Rose y Alexis Ohanian, Reddit se endurece y Menéame ajusta el karma: vuelve la charla con reglas, hilo y memoria. Internet está haciendo una cosa curiosa en este arranque de 2...

¿Por qué vuelven los foros de Internet en plena era scroll? #22deenero #felizjueves #Digg #Reddit #Meneame #Foros #Comunidad #Algoritmo #Tecnologia #CulturaDigital #Internet #IA #Moderacion #SocialMedia donporque.com/vuelven-los-...

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I'm trying hard to like #digg

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Digg Is Back Digg is back to take on Reddit, bringing back the original founder alongside one of Reddit's co-founders. The site has a new design, and new features like an AI podcast.

lifehacker.com/tech/digg-is...

Digg is back, for better or worse.

It looks like it is shaping up to possibly compete directly with reddit.

#SocialMedia #Digg

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Screenshot in light mode showing the Birds community feature on Digg

Screenshot in light mode showing the Birds community feature on Digg

Screenshot in dark mode showing the Birds community feature on Digg

Screenshot in dark mode showing the Birds community feature on Digg

Screenshot in light mode showing the Birds community feature with cover photo. There are currently 146 members with 25 posts.

Screenshot in light mode showing the Birds community feature with cover photo. There are currently 146 members with 25 posts.

The Birds community I made on #Digg just got featured!!! 🥳🦜

We passed 100 members yesterday and we’re almost at 150!!

Makes me so happy to build this small and budding community of people who enjoy birds :)

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The new #Digg is useless for creating a community around your interests. Their AI removes your posts without citing a reason. Even if the content is interesting and the intent is clear.

If you can start your community, but aren't in control, that's a rug pull waiting happen.

Not worth your time!

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