That's disappointing to hear, I remember the reboot news and thought they had a pretty solid team behind it. I guess gaining traction proved too difficult.
I actually found some of it useful. I saw some page where it helpfully pulled tweets from well known people relating to some story. So it’s not just some slop, or that’s how it looked to me.
which is hilarious because i was excited when i heard Digg was coming back. Many platforms are having a difficult time with bots, mass thread manipulation, etc. I'd be interested in a platform which attempted to fix that problem. I thought that was "so obvious" that i figured it was going to exactly be Digg's play. .. nope, just another AI play, as if we are missing those these days.
No idea if zero AI/bots is even possible, but at least an attempt would have me interested. A platform like Reddit/Digg of old, offering human connection, features aimed at less toxicity, etc.
The real news here is that Digg is still up :O
It came back, died, and now it's back as some kind of weird AI-focused news aggregator.
this sentence hurts to read
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Reminds me of the Perplexity news thing.
It died and came back again last month
That's disappointing to hear, I remember the reboot news and thought they had a pretty solid team behind it. I guess gaining traction proved too difficult.
I actually found some of it useful. I saw some page where it helpfully pulled tweets from well known people relating to some story. So it’s not just some slop, or that’s how it looked to me.
which is hilarious because i was excited when i heard Digg was coming back. Many platforms are having a difficult time with bots, mass thread manipulation, etc. I'd be interested in a platform which attempted to fix that problem. I thought that was "so obvious" that i figured it was going to exactly be Digg's play. .. nope, just another AI play, as if we are missing those these days.
No idea if zero AI/bots is even possible, but at least an attempt would have me interested. A platform like Reddit/Digg of old, offering human connection, features aimed at less toxicity, etc.
Instead they give us this AI crap :s
This version is peak ai slop garbage trying to game the Google algorithm
It seems to be basically a Twitter mirror with extra cruft?
More like a curator of all the AI news on Twitter. It’s also a great way to find trending AI projects on GitHub and elsewhere
Ahah, it used to be as much a time sink as HN
digg goes along with slashdot and freshmeat memories. good 'ol mems
... for nostalgia's sake ...
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That’s my thoughts exactly, had to click the home page to double check!
Digg link? [dupe]
Source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48515912)
Digg
edit: ouch, I’m a current Digg user. Even donated for their relaunch :(