Digg relaunches as an aggregator of AI news and social media commentary, with plans to expand to other topics; its prior reboot shut down in March after months
Digg is back from the dead. Again. — Just months after launching, the reboot of Kevin Rose's once-popular link-sharing site shut down in March, as the company shifted course.
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Discussion
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@kevinrose
Kevin Rose
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a little project i've been hacking on: https://di.gg/ bugs expected. more topics soon.
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@kevinrose
Kevin Rose
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when @sama touches a story about ai (post/repost/quote/comment), 98% of the time it sets off a chain reaction - deep discussion and propagation of that topic throughout X — this is all in the new @digg coming soon. [video]
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@kevinrose
Kevin Rose
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also new🚨: trending companies [image]
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@kevinrose
Kevin Rose
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today at @digg, we added full chain of participation icons for each person touching a story (post/repost/quote post), @thinkymachines just flew up to the top w/ this announcement: [image]
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@jsneedles
Jeff Needles
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@kevinrose ... I love that it's the best parts of @ProductHunt and @Techmeme and a lil bit of HN smushed together 💯
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@parkerortolani
Parker Ortolani
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new new digg already immediately more useful
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@gavinpurcell
Gavin Purcell
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new digg really interesting yes, it's a front page ai summary of ai twitter but it's really large data play to surface info i'd be genuinely curious to see this applied to lots of other things
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@addison
@addison
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Being able to watch Kevin build this out has been super rad. Good shit, son!!
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@alexisohanian
Alexis Ohanian
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More on the way... 👷♂ let us know what you think https://x.com/...
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@can
@can
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look at this point someone needs to take digg into a dark alley and put it out of its misery [image]
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Digg tries again, this time as an AI news aggregator