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Digg tries again, this time as an aggregator of news about AI (di.gg)

submitted 2 weeks ago by rimu@piefed.social to c/technology@piefed.social

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From techcrunch:

This time around, the site is focused on ranking news - specifically, AI news. In an email to beta testers, the company said the site’s goal is to “track the most influential voices in a space” and to surface the news that’s actually worth “paying attention to.” AI is the area it’s testing this idea with, but if successful, Digg will expand to include other topics.

It scrapes x.com and uses that to decide what's newsworthy.

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[–] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 5 points 2 weeks ago

That's a misleading title. AI is just the test topic. It's like if lemmy demonstrated a proof of concept by showing "/c/privacy" and they said "it's an aggregator of links about privacy".

The idea is not bad actually. At small scale you can leave moderation to the community, like lemmy does. Once you get any sort of attention bots, spammers and scammers will flood in. There are many possible ways to fight it and having some sort of automated ranking is a valid idea. It's a different concept than reddit and lemmy and I don't think it would be a direct competitor but if done right it could be an interesting space to get news on specific topics.