Digg returns as an AI news ranking site using signals from X

In short: Digg has relaunched again, now as a site that ranks AI news by tracking what is getting attention on X.

What happened

Digg, the older link sharing site founded by Kevin Rose, has returned with a new version at di.gg/ai. This comes only months after Digg’s recent reboot, which tried to look like Reddit, shut down in March after the company said it needed to rethink the product.

The earlier reboot struggled with bot traffic (automated accounts that act like real users) and did not stand out enough from competitors. Digg laid off staff, and Rose returned to work full-time on a new version in April.

The new Digg looks more like a news “scoreboard” than a community forum. It highlights four main items at the top, like the most viewed story and the fastest climbing story, then shows a ranked list of top stories for the day.

Why it matters

Instead of measuring what is popular on Digg itself, the site pulls in real-time activity from X and uses it to decide what stories matter most. In simple terms, it is watching where the crowd is looking, like checking which checkout line is growing fastest to guess which store has the best deals.

Digg also lists the top 1,000 people involved in AI, plus top companies and politicians focused on AI issues. It could help people who do not want to spend time scrolling X, but it is not yet clear if it will become a daily habit since there is currently no discussion happening on Digg itself.

Source: TechCrunch AI