Does the World Even Want Digg in 2025?

Digg is coming back, and I’m left wondering if anyone will care. To a certain kind of elder millennial who has spent the last few decades online, news of a return of Digg will trigger a nostalgic fugue. Kevin Rose, the site’s original founder, appears dead set on inducing that feeling in a video he uploaded to X announcing the new venture. The big twist is that Rose is teaming up with Reddit co-founder and once-sworn enemy Alexis Ohanian for the Digg relaunch. For a while, Reddit called itself “the front page of the internet,” but there was a time when that name belonged to Digg. Along with sites like Slashdot, Fark, Hacker News, and del.icio.us, Digg served a simple purpose in the early days of the web. It allowed people to share news, talk about the news, and vote on whether or not the news was worth seeing. On the site for its reboot, Digg is promising to once again be the front page of the internet but “now with superpowers.” Those superpowers will have to be quite impressive to ... Read full article.