Digg is coming back from the dead, will use AI to ease the work of moderators

OSTN Staff

The older among you may remember Digg – a social link sharing site. For the younger among you, it was “the front page of the Internet” before Reddit took over the crown. After a disastrous redesign in 2010, Digg fell off hard and never really recovered – but now it is coming back.

Kevin Rose, Digg’s original founder, and Alexis Ohanian, co-founder of Reddit, have teamed up to “revive the social platform with a fresh vision to restore the spirit of discovery and genuine community that made the early web a fun and exciting place to be.”

After the 2010 redesign, Digg took a downward…