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

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.

This didn’t happen years 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.

Well, that didn’t last long.