People stopped using Digg after v4 and it died. Digg sold for $500k in 2012–down from a valuation of $175M+ only a couple years prior. The buyers kept the name but changed it to a curated content aggregator without community comments, etc.
c/lostlemmings ?
“savage hordes of vermin”
ACAB
Astroturfing is just a reality we have to live with online.