“If you find yourself nostalgic for an earlier era of the internet, you may welcome the news that after spending the last decade or so being passed between owners like a Christmas present no one wants, Digg—the site that was Reddit before Reddit—has been relaunched, with its new incarnation now in open beta. Now, original co-founder Kevin Rose is back to try again; along with Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian, he re-acquired the site last year. “
Yes, we seem to have way too many sites and options nowadays. We’ve already seen the spin-off from Reddit to decentralised alternatives such as Raddle, Ramble, Beehaw, and many more.
But this is a nostalgic throwback to the good old Digg days, a bit like when Reddit started out itself. One can only now hope that MySpace would have come back in a similar fashion, and usurped Facebook. But we can still hope…
See https://gizmodo.com/digg-relaunches-from-the-grave-with-some-ai-enhancements-2000710736 and the Digg site at https://digg.com