This time around, the site is focused on ranking news - specifically, AI news. In an email to beta testers, the company said the site’s goal is to “track the most influential voices in a space” and to surface the news that’s actually worth “paying attention to.” AI is the area it’s testing this idea with, but if successful, Digg will expand to include other topics.
It scrapes x.com and uses that to decide what’s newsworthy.
Rose probably got the idea from his friend Leo Laporte who has REALLY taken a massive swig of the AI Kool-Aid. it’s a real shame too cause I grew up watching both these guys on The Screen Savers and Call For Help. they pretty much taught me everything I know about computers. but man they went deep into AI/LLMs.
It’s funny how much Rose is focused on chasing trends and how little interest he has in innovation. He gave up on Digg very quickly, which makes sense from a business and product development perspective, but also provides signals for potential users.
Just like TC article mentions, how is this any different from just using in-built Twitter functionality or just subscribing to a link-based forum on the topic of AI?
That’s a misleading title. AI is just the test topic. It’s like if lemmy demonstrated a proof of concept by showing “/c/privacy” and they said “it’s an aggregator of links about privacy”.
The idea is not bad actually. At small scale you can leave moderation to the community, like lemmy does. Once you get any sort of attention bots, spammers and scammers will flood in. There are many possible ways to fight it and having some sort of automated ranking is a valid idea. It’s a different concept than reddit and lemmy and I don’t think it would be a direct competitor but if done right it could be an interesting space to get news on specific topics.
AI mixed with news sourced from X. What could possibly go wrong?
Yeah, hard pass from me.
It’s absolute shit. Used to love Digg, listen to Diggnation, etc, but this is absolute shit.
Damn now I’m sorry I gave them a second chance lol.
Are the AI influencers really the smartest people in Roman Numeral Ten (Formerly Twitter)?
Okay so they chose to aggregate twitter which now is an AI infested shithole that promotes anything musk wants.
According to another posr their last attempt was launched in March, so it’ll be interesting to see what business model they choose in September.
