Digg’s open beta shuts down after just two months, blaming AI bot spam

https://lemmy.world/post/44223690

Digg’s open beta shuts down after just two months, blaming AI bot spam - Lemmy.World

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Wasn’t AI part of their “selling” point?

If it was, it was a bad stratagy.

AI is the only industry that is somehow nonprofitable, without customers, and yet also propping up the economy right now.

Just waiting for this stupid bubble to pop

I mean, reddit only got big because Digg made some very stupid moves before, so … pretty on brand
Reddit was doing fine before the influx from Digg. That’s one of the reasons people migrated to reddit in the first place - because it was already viable. That said, it was an influx of users, for sure.
It was better before the influx from Digg imo