Digg's Latest Incarnation Already Failed, It's Infested With LLM Slop
"In an interview with TechCrunch, Rose shared his goals with the newly relaunched Digg of building trust with its user base and making sure it's not overtaken by AI bots looking to manipulate the platform. For example, a Digg community for those who own a particular piece of tech hardware could be asked to prove they own said piece of technology." - Last month (slop is already a problem there)
"The new Digg went live for a select number of testers in April 2025, and this month, the doors opened to the general public. The site does still have a ‘beta’ label and continues to be a work in progress." - Weeks ago
Last month we took note of the latest of several incarnations of Digg.com. They keep trying - and failing - to resurrect what used to be and once upon a time thrived spectacularly.
The 'site' is a JavaScript 'webapp', what it calls "Feed" is not RSS (unlike 20 years ago), and there seems to be not much interaction in there. Many submissions go to slopfarms and some get summarised by slop.
I have nothing against the original founders who now have a "Second Go" at their old 'baby' (it didn't scale well because of their poorly crafted MySQL queries); I just think they're misguided to assume this thing will truly take off. Social control media is already waning and they'll spend extraordinary amounts of time dealing with slop/bots - to the point of erroneously banning people or censoring real stories (false positives). █