Digg cuts jobs after facing AI bot surge

Damn, their front page message is pretty eye opening: "Building on the internet in 2026 is different. We learned that the hard way. Today we're sharing difficult news: we've made the decision to significantly downsize the Digg team. This wasn't a decision made lightly, and it's important to say clearly: this is one of the strongest groups of people we've ever had the privilege of working with. This is not a reflection of their talent, their effort, or their belief in what we were building. It's a reflection of the brutal reality of finding product-market fit in an environment that has fundamentally changed. We faced an unprecedented bot problem When the Digg beta launched, we immediately noticed posts from SEO spammers noting that Digg still carried meaningful Google link authority. Within hours, we got a taste of what we'd only heard rumors about. The internet is now populated, in meaningful part, by sophisticated AI agents and automated accounts. We knew bots were part of the landscape, but we didn't appreciate the scale, sophistication, or speed at which they'd find us. We banned tens of thousands of accounts. We deployed internal tooling and industry-standard external vendors. None of it was enough. When you can't trust that the votes, the comments, and the engagement you're seeing are real, you've lost the foundation a community platform is built on. This isn't just a Digg problem. It's an internet problem. But it hit us harder because trust is the product." I mean, I keep hearing about bots and AI agents proliferating all over social media, but I just thought that was a back handed way of being dismissive over talking points people didn't agree with. Holy shit, I really wonder now about the dead Internet theory

Amazed to learn that Digg is still around.

I hope digg can make a good platform so that I may finally leave this place.

I was a little surprised a few days ago to find my Digg app wasn't working. Sad really, as I was probably most deeply in my techie world days with the original Digg, TWiT, Slashdot etc.

Learn something new everyday digg is still around

Someone needs to setup a confirmed human email server. Then any free accounts that are setup need to authenticate by that server. I dont know how the confirmation would work, if you have to pay with a real CC or what. Maybe a one-time setup fee. Or maybe setup involves snail mail an access number to a home address.

What's with the ascii p*** thumbnail?