Comment by DamnInteresting
2 years ago
On another side note: I have been running an interesting link recommendation feed for many years now, and evidently in ~2018 someone curating links for Digg found my feed and started relying on it heavily to populate Digg's front page. It went on for months. Some days as much as half of the links I posted would subsequently show up on Digg, including links to unusual and old content (which was a strong signal that the overlap was no mere coincidence).
In 2019 Digg posted a job listing for a links curator, and I cheekily applied, noting that I'm already doing the job anyway, so they might as well pay me for it. They didn't take me up on it, but like magic, the poaching went away.
How do you even make such a list nowadays? In the past tou could take stuff from forums, but now forums are dead. Facebook is trash so apart from known sources (is Rss dead?)organicly finding new stuff sounds harsh. Apart from maybe coppying from reddit / digg / wykop / some spanish reddit equivalent...
A few years ago I made a tool that fetches content from a big list of primary sources (via RSS or HTML), and pushes each link it finds through filters (keyword blacklist, duplicate check, etc). I made a UI that lets me accept or reject links Tinder style, and when I have a scrap of time to fill, I assess a few links.
I also have a small group of well-read friends who make an effort to send me stuff, that helps a lot too.