Digg announces a “hard reset” and shuts down operations two months after it was relaunched by Kevin Rose and Alexis Ohanian, citing the scale of AI bot spam
Digg's Reddit-like relaunch failed fast, but its CEO is already planning another comeback.Forums:Hacker NewsandSlashdotForums:Hacker News:Digg is gone againBeauHD /Slashdot:Digg Relaunch Fails
Reddit must continue growing its ad and content licensing revenue to justify its market valuation, which could fast-track the platform's “enshittification”
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” —George Santayana — Essentially, Digg lost its community due to changes that favored popular content over diverse interests. See als...
Elon Musk says Twitter has temporarily limited verified accounts to reading 10K posts/day, unverified 1K, and new unverified 500, due to “extreme” data scraping
Censorship Expert Says Musk ‘Has Stepped on a Rattlesnake’ Jonas Mäki / Gamereactor UK : Twitter stops data collection by adding lots of restrictions Brayden Lindrea / Cointelegraph : Elon Musk impose...
Amid ongoing Reddit protests, decentralized link aggregation and discussion forum projects Lemmy and Kbin grow to a total of 70K+ MAUs and 1,000+ instances
https://privacy.thenexus.today/ ... Jeroen Baert / @jbaert@mastodon.social : Some excellent resources for the #RedditMigration: mapping of subreddits to their new home in the fediverse (On Lemmy or Kb...
Reddit says that 80% of the site's top subreddits are currently open; Reddark estimates that 4K+ subreddits are limiting access, down from almost 9K on June 12
Will Consider Letting Users Vote Out Moderators Tweets: Ben Goggin / @benjamingoggin : NEW: Reddit CEO slammed protest leaders in an interview, saying he plans to institute rule changes that would all...
Staff memo: Reddit's CEO says “like all blowups on Reddit, this one will pass”, new moderation tools are vital, wearing Reddit gear in public is risky, and more
Programming note: Barring big news, Platformer will be off Thursday as I take a personal day. Matt Binder / Mashable : Reddit Blackout: CEO downplays protest. Subreddits vow to keep fighting. Emre Çit...
Apple Watch Edition won't appeal to the technologist, the collector, or the gold lover, only the douchebag
The Gold Apple Watch Is Perfect For Douchebags — Editor's Note: Kevin Rose is the founder of Digg, a technology investor, and CEO of North Technologies, creator of the watch news aggregator, Watchvi...