Digg lays off staff and shuts down app as company retools

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• BrikoX@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The biggest self own in this is that they are saying LLM bots killed them while they were using LLMs for many of their own functionality.

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• roofuskit@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This didn’t happen years ago?

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  • BrikoX@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It did. They tried a revive which lasted 2 months.

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• onlinepersona@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  If digg had written a fediverse compatible app, things could’ve turned out way differently. But they wanted to create a new, disconnected garden and there’s no appetite for that.

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• Keshara@piefed.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  This was super disappointing, but not all that surprising.

  I personally thought that the Digg public beta started out with some actual promise, people seemed to be engaging, and the devs were engaging with the community. But probably about 3 weeks in I started noticing that every single post would have maybe 1 comment at most, very rarely see a thread with 2 or more comments. 90% of posts I saw were just links to some random article, otherwise the global feed was just inundated in SEO spam

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• belated_frog_pants@beehaw.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I forgot digg existed still

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• lemmysmash@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Digg is still alive?!

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