{"id":218,"date":"2026-03-13T20:51:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T20:51:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/?p=218"},"modified":"2026-03-13T20:51:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T20:51:15","slug":"diggs-open-beta-shuts-down-after-just-two-months-blaming-ai-bot-spam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/?p=218","title":{"rendered":"Digg\u2019s open beta shuts down after just two months, blaming AI bot spam"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Array of screen shots of Digg on simulated mobile screens\" data-caption=\"\" data-portal-copyright=\"Image: Digg\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.theverge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/03\/digg-beta-2026.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;crop=0,0,100,100\" \/><figcaption>\n\t\t<\/figcaption><\/p><\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">It&#8217;s only been a year since Digg founder Kevin Rose, Reddit cofounder Alexis Ohanian, and a few others announced the link-sharing site would relaunch, promising a &#8220;social discovery built by communities, not by algorithms.&#8221; Now, two months after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/862088\/the-new-digg-is-launching-an-open-beta\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">opening<\/a> its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/apps\/763689\/digg-mobile-ios-android-app-relaunch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reddit-like platform<\/a> to the public, Digg is announcing a &#8220;hard reset&#8221; that&#8217;s shutting down operations and will &#8220;significantly downsize the Digg team.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">When they announced its relaunch, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/social\/624073\/digg-relaunch-2025#:~:text=like%20Better%20Reddit.-,Rose%20says%20he,-and%20Ohanian%20are\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rose told <em>The Verge <\/em><\/a>that AI could &#8220;remove the janitorial work of moderators and community managers.&#8221; Now, the new Digg&#8217;s CEO Justin Mezzell <a href=\"https:\/\/digg.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">writes in a note pinned to the homepage<\/a> that, &#8220;We knew bots were  \u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/tech\/894803\/digg-beta-shutdown-layoffs-ai\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full story at The Verge.<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s only been a year since Digg founder Kevin Rose, Reddit cofounder Alexis Ohanian, and a few others announced the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":219,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}