The 41-year-old Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian teamed up with the former rival Kevin Rose (48) to DIGG, a social and link sharing website Rose, which was founded in 2004. It was divided and sold for parts to BetaWorks, LinkedIn and the Washington Post in 2012.
With the DOGG from 2004, users were able to share links that were able to create the other “Digg” and Upvote or “Bury” and Downvote “Digg” and a place for trend news. Users can also comment on links, with the most popular content ending up on the homepage.
During its flowering, Digg ogg 200 million unique users attracted, but after an update from 2010 had removed the “Bury” button, the users outraged the website in droves, which led to his death.
Ohanian and Rose announced on Wednesday that they restart DIGG as a mobile platform. The new DIGG invitations will be invited in the coming weeks. The website for the restart of DIGG shows that over 175,000 people received access early at the time of writing.
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According to Bloomberg, Justin Mezzell, a product designer who previously worked on the Code School and RevenUecat, will be Digg's new CEO. Ohanian and Rose will serve on the board of directors.
The team bought diggs domain and assets from the Money Group for an unknown amount and received investments from the Ohanian-based risk capital company (VC) seven six and True Ventures, a VC company in which Rose is partners. They refused to reveal how much they had raised to Bloomberg.
Alexis Ohian. Photo by Patrick Smith/Athlos/Getty Images for Athlos
The plans for the revival of DIGG began when Rose turned to Ohanian with the idea of a new Digg last year, with which AI could contribute to combating spam and moderate content. According to the New York Times, Rose found where AI DIGG could help by issuing thousands of dollars for targeted ads for Reddit, a comparable platform to ask moderators about their greatest challenges.
“These moderators pour their lives in,” he told Times. “We think we can do it better.”
Rose informed The Versge that he imagined that Digg Ki uses “everything from an AI agent who converts all of her under Community in Klingon”, a fictional language in the Star Trek universe “, to another, in which she does not allow a certain type of obscenity and which is automatically automatically automatically.”
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Ohanian, who worked in the Reddit board by 2020, said in a press release that AI would take over the background “Grunzwerk” of the fight against spam and filtering content on DIGG, while the human moderators focus on “building up real connections”.
“I am everything in this chapter,” said Ohanian.
DIGG is a direct competitor of Reddit, a company of $ 30 billion with $ 101.7 million active, unique users in February. Reddit made Ki a priority and in February 2024 signed a contract of over 60 million US dollars with Google, which enabled the Tech -Riese to train his AI for Reddit content and to conclude a similar deal with Openai in May 2024.
Reddit has an integrated moderation system called Automoderator, which automatically goes through contributions to check whether you violate community guidelines. Although the platform introduced a AI-driven safety function in March 2024 to recognize online nuisance, AI agents are not yet worked as moderators and not specified whether it is working on the implementation of insider.
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