Here's your first look at the rebooted Digg | TechCrunch
Here's your first look at the rebooted Digg | TechCrunch
Digg launched its iOS app to testers who are a part of its Groundbreakers community of early adopters.
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.
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.
Because those shitty patterns make the platform valuable. It's about creating investor value, end user be damned.
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 cautious attention...
Beneath posts, Digg is leveraging AI to summarize the article’s content.
And they lost me.
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.
The internet has way too many AI bots, let's add some more
- Digg logic
AI. BOTS. MILLENIAL INFANTILE DESIGN. CORPORATE SPEAK.
Gee, I wonder why people aren't tripping over themselves to join this.
That was a wild ride.
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!
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.
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.
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.
Idk, its less subjective than the top comment summaries on reddit from users
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.
Not like itll prevent ppl from clicking on articles that alrady werent
Because that worked soo well for Apple.
And they realized it and fixed their mistake… hopefully…
It must be tiring to be this narrow-minded.
The hero no one wanted, or needed
But other than that. Cool
I'm looking forward to the "Here's your first look at the rebooted Reddit" articles in 7 years.
Worthless crap. Thank fuck we're on a platform free of centralised ownership.
let me guess it's ai slop
No thanks
Don't care.
concepts that have been whipped up in Photoshop aren't "first looks"