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Digg’s open beta shuts down after just two months, blaming AI bot spam (www.theverge.com)

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[–] drmoose@lemmy.world 8 points 6 months ago (1 child)

Kind of but decentralization really makes it up for it. Digg didn't even have custom communities let alone decentralization.

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[–] Sl00k@programming.dev 4 points 6 months ago

I have my complaints with Lemmy but I was astounded with how bad Digg was. It's like none of them actually used these community based apps.

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