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Digg’s founders explain how they’re building a site for humans in the AI era


The rebooted version of social site Digg aims to bring back the spirit of the old web.

This presents an opportunity to build a social site for the AI era, where the people who create content and manage online communities are given a bigger stake in a platform’s success, Digg’s founders think. A Web 2.0-era news aggregation giant, Digg was once valued at $175 million at its height back in 2008 and is now being given new life under the direction of its original founder, Kevin Rose, and Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian. Initially, the two touched on problems they encountered in the earlier days of social media, with Ohanian recalling how he chose to resign from Reddit’s board over disagreements about the company’s approach to hate speech that he felt was bad for society and the business.

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