Digg is back from the grave (again) and taking on Reddit
Mashable • • general
Key Points:
- Digg, once a popular crowdsourced content platform that popularized "upvoting," declined after a failed 2010 redesign, leading many users to migrate to Reddit.
- Kevin Rose, Digg's original founder, is partnering with Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian to relaunch Digg, aiming to compete with Reddit using Ohanian's expertise.
- The beta version of the new Digg launched publicly at Digg.com, featuring 21 general communities and plans to allow user-created communities with one manager per community initially.
- The relaunched Digg focuses on building user trust and combating AI bot manipulation by verifying community members' ownership of specific tech hardware, among other measures.
- Digg also introduced an
