Co-founder of Reddit Alexis Ohranian, 41, has joined forces with former Rival Kevin Rose, 48, to revive Digg, a social website, and to share Rose links in 2004-split and split and split and split Sold for part For betaworks, Linkedin and Washington Post in 2012. Both aim to inject the new Digg with the moderators of the content of him, an action that has not yet been implemented by Reddit.
2004 Digg allowed the user to share links that others can “Digg” and Upvote or “Bury” and Downvote, creating a place for trendy news. Users can also comment on links, with the most popular content that ends on the home page.
At its peak, Digg drew 40 million unique monthly users, but after a 2010 update removed the “Bury” button, users outraged And she left the moving page, leading to her death.
Ohranian and rose notified On Wednesday they are restoring Digg as a first mobile platform, with invitations to the new Digg that adheres to users in the coming weeks. Website for the Internet for Reboot of Digg shows that over 175,000 people are recorded to take early access to it at the time of writing.
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By BloombergJustin Mezzell, a stylist of products who previously worked in Code School and Revenuecat, will be the new CEO of Digg. Ohranian and Rose will serve on the board of directors.
The team bought domain and Digg assets and assets from Group Money for an undiscovered amount, and has received investments from Venture Capital (VC) firm founded by Ohranian Seven Six, as well as TRUE Ventures, a QV firm where Rose is partner. They refused to find out how much they had raised, for Bloomberg.
Alexis OHANIAN. Photo by Patrick Smith/Athlos/Getty Images for Athlos
Plans to revive Digg began when Rose arrived in Ohranian last year with the idea of a new digg he can use to help fight spam and moderate content. By New York TimesRose determined where he can help in Digg by spending thousands of dollars on target advertising on Reddit, a comparable platform, to look for moderators for their biggest challenges.
“These moderators are pouring their lives on this,” he said Times. “We think we can do it better.”
Rose said eve That he predicts Digg using him for “everything from one agent of one who transforms your entire sub-community in Klingon,” an imaginary language in the Star Trek Universe “, in another where you do not allow a certain type of folly and that automatically-made automatically.”
OHANIAN, who served on Reddi Board By 2020DECLARING In a press release that he will get in the background “sharp work” of fighting spam and filtering through Dig content while human moderators focus on “building true connections”.
“I'm all in this chapter,” Ohranian said.
Digg is a direct competitor of Reddit, a $ 30 billion with 101.7 million Unique daily active users since the February Profit Report. Reddit has made a priority, signing a $ 60 million deal with Google in February 2024 that allowed the technology giant to train it in Reddi's content and be followed with a similar deal with OpenAi In May 2024.
Reddit has an integrated moderation system called aUTOMATIC This automatically goes through posts to see if community policies violate. Although the platform introduced a Characteristic of energy security he In March 2024 to detect internet harassment, it still has no agents of the one working as moderators and has not stated whether it is working on their implementation, for Interior.
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