Digg is coming back, thanks to its founder — and Reddit’s
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Summary
Digg, the once popular social media platform that enabled users to share and discover content and links, is making a comeback, this time with a focus on using AI to improve the user experience and create a “community-first” platform.
Founder Kevin Rose will act as chair, with design and product executive Justin Mezzell becoming CEO and Reddit’s Alexis Ohanian acting as an adviser.
AI will assist with content sorting and moderation and will enable more interaction and creativity, such as community-created AI tools.
The new platform aims to be more of an “art project” than an internet forum, with a prototype launching soon.
Long-term, the new team want to create a platform that is more user-focused and respects the “humans behind the scenes with real opinions, real conversations and real stories”.