Digg Tries Again, This Time As an AI News Aggregator
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- News link: https://news.slashdot.org/story/26/05/11/2040256/digg-tries-again-this-time-as-an-ai-news-aggregator
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> On Friday evening, the founder [4]previewed a link to the newly redesigned Digg, which now looks nothing like a Reddit clone and more like the news aggregator it once was. This time around, the site is focused on ranking news -- specifically, AI news to start. In an email to beta testers, the company said the site's goal is to "track the most influential voices in a space" and to surface the news that's actually worth "paying attention to." AI is the area it's testing this idea with, but if successful, Digg will expand to include other topics. The email warned that the site was still raw and "buggy," and was designed more to give users a first look than to serve as its public debut.
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> On the current homepage, Digg showcases four main stories at the top: the most viewed story, a story seeing rising discussion, the fastest-climbing story, and one "In case you missed it" headline. Below that is a ranked list of top stories for the day, complete with engagement metrics like views, comments, likes, and saves. But the twist is that these metrics aren't the ones generated on Digg itself. Instead, Digg is ingesting content from X in real-time to determine what's being discussed, while also performing sentiment analysis, clustering, and signal detection to determine what matters most. [...] The site also ranks the top 1,000 people involved in AI, as well as the top companies and the top politicians focused on AI issues.
[1] https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/11/digg-tries-again-this-time-as-an-ai-news-aggregator/
[2] https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/14/digg-launches-its-new-reddit-rival-to-the-public/
[3] https://tech.slashdot.org/story/26/03/13/1953248/digg-relaunch-fails
[4] https://x.com/kevinrose/status/2052875741805834690
Somebody is trying to get investors (Score:3, Insightful)
I remember when you could add crypto to the name of your company and your stock would shoot up because bots were buying any stock with a crypto in the name. AI has the same bullshit going on.
It sounds like he's just doing basically like a Google search for a news topic. Using Twitter chat as the source to determine what the highest ranking search result is. To limit the amount of searching he's doing and to get attention he's focusing on news stories discussing AI.
There is absolutely nothing new here he's just trying to use an algorithm to pick up popular news stories and display them on his website. And he is limiting the type of news stories to ones that discuss AI.
It sounds like a big thing until you actually stop and think about it. It's still just a shitty aggregator just an automated shitty aggregator...
It's not going to go anywhere as far as people using it but throwing the words AI here and there might get some clueless investors to give him some money. But man this reeks of desperation
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> I remember when you could add crypto to the name of your company and your stock would shoot up because bots were buying any stock with a crypto in the name. AI has the same bullshit going on.
For example, [1]Struggling shoe retailer Allbirds makes bizarre pivot to AI, adds $127 million in value [cnbc.com].
[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/15/allbirds-bird-stock-shoes-ai.html
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Yeah what scares me about that is it's clearly automatic bots making those picks on the stock market and it really shouldn't be something that can move stock prices that much. I can see a few idiots running bots maybe even a few of the rich assholes doing it but not enough to take a dying shoe store and bump its stock to 127 million.
That's a sign of a fundamentally unsound system that's going to come crashing down soon.
I wouldn't care but every time it crashes it comes down on my head. The entire sy
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The headline may as well be "Rose maintains transactional relationships with tech media after all these years".
At this point I think if a good idea walked up and smacked him on the head, the name alone might doom it. It has been an also-ran in a confusing number of categories, so depending on your age you may remember it as a very different kind of failure than I do. Sort of the converse of trademark dilution - it is clear what the name is and who owns it, what's muddy is what the service is supposed to be
I give it 4 months (Score:2)
Before he AI costs offset their non-existent userbase monetization.
Good bg color choice, 'cause (Score:2)
"They say taupe is very soothing" - [1]Rusty Ryan [wikipedia.org]
So that's something... :-)
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ocean's_characters#Rusty_Ryan
Someone Digg its grave, please (Score:2)
It's dead, Jim.
It's not coming back.
Huh? (Score:2)
Are there that many people interested in the 'individuals' in the AI world? Or AI in general? (Which isn't even actually AI, but we have to play along.)
I certainly am not.
I kinda enjoyed their relaunch, but this sounds like an invitation to another quick shutdown.
Sorry Digg (Score:2)
You screwed the pooch years ago and dugg your grave. Not interested in an AI News Aggregator (whatever the hell that means).
Bubbye now, Digg. Nobody needs that. (Score:1)
Bruh, anyone can just ask an LLM for the same service or summary. No need to go visit Digg. This last try appears to be a grave marker, not a strategy. However, Reddit is already an insufferable cesspool. At least they didn't add to that noise.
Re: Bubbye now, Digg. Nobody needs that. (Score:2)
If the new Digg let's users comment on news articles (sort of like slashdot) then it might survive