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.
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?