Digg founder Kevin Rose and Reddit founder Alexis Ohanian buy Digg for an undisclosed sum from Money Group, aiming to focus on “connection and humanity” online.
Digg founder Kevin Rose and Reddit founder Alexis Ohanian buy Digg for an undisclosed sum from Money Group, aiming to focus on “connection and humanity” online.
Before Reddit there was Digg, which popularized up- and down-votes on online posts. Now the founders of both platforms — social media veterans Kevin Rose and Alexis Ohanian — are relaunching the early Reddit rival with a focus on “humanity and connection” they hope will be boosted by the use of arti
Inb4 it turns out they bought it to promote an AI that specializes in connection and humanity...
What, me, bitter? Naaaw, what makes you think so?
Edit: turns out I have not a single original thought in my head: https://marketoonist.com/2022/08/ai-generated-marketing-content.html
They named their two new AI models "connection" and "humanity".
Digg still exists? I had no idea.
It has morphed into something completely different them the link sharing site it used to be.
I think it would be funny if Digg made a comeback
yes a bot riddled walled garden for 'connection and humanity'... uh huh.
Not surprised as he has mentioned quite a number of times on the revived diggnation show that he would like to have it back. Lets see if he can avoid enshittifying it before it goes up again.
Digg was always trash. Reddit became trash.
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