The company, which is today back under the ownership of its original founder, Kevin Rose, along with Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian, is launching its open beta to the public
Huh. I assumed Rose would still be behind stuff like this, but didn’t expect Ohanian.
I’m a ‘Digg refugee’ that fled to Reddit around 2009, I think? I knew Digg from Rose, because I was watching Tech TV and The Screen Savers, around 2002.
Anyway I turned my back on Digg when Rose sold out and I’m also going to avoid his new attempt at money making with an AI thingy.
Digg is dead and is gonna stay dead to me. I don’t want its rotting dug up reanimated corpse with a sticker saying “now powered by AI!”
EDIT: Coming to think about it, Tech TV turning into G4 might have been an early form of enshittificarion.
That edit hits like a brick.
I think about techtv a couple times a year. What an interesting convergence of old media and the first stages of new media.
Huh. I assumed Rose would still be behind stuff like this, but didn’t expect Ohanian.
I’m a ‘Digg refugee’ that fled to Reddit around 2009, I think? I knew Digg from Rose, because I was watching Tech TV and The Screen Savers, around 2002.
Anyway I turned my back on Digg when Rose sold out and I’m also going to avoid his new attempt at money making with an AI thingy.
Digg is dead and is gonna stay dead to me. I don’t want its rotting dug up reanimated corpse with a sticker saying “now powered by AI!”
EDIT: Coming to think about it, Tech TV turning into G4 might have been an early form of enshittificarion.
That edit hits like a brick. I think about techtv a couple times a year. What an interesting convergence of old media and the first stages of new media.