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Interesting that the article does not show digg, which killed itself. On a side note, the current form of digg is interesting, yet somehow poorly done. Go ther

by rvba 3y ago

Interesting that the article does not show digg, which killed itself. On a side note, the current form of digg is interesting, yet somehow poorly done. Go there, sort by year: get only things from 2024, since no way to get 2023 or a rolling year. Not to mention being able to choose all or certain time periods

probably_wrong 3y ago
The current Digg is doing its best to destroy the goodwill they collected with the slightly-less-current Digg. I started going there regularly about a year and a half ago, mostly because they would feature articles that I wouldn't find in my other typical websites. But in the last six months they have been optimizing to death, cutting anything that's not an instant success and publishing variant after variant of anything that's mildly successful (yay, another article on Twitter memes!). Clickbait titles are there too, along with a new-ish comment section that's 90% spam. It's been a sobering lesson on what happens when you put growth above everything.
DamnInteresting 3y ago
On another side note: I have been running an interesting link recommendation feed for many years now, and evidently in ~2018 someone curating links for Digg found my feed and started relying on it heavily to populate Digg's front page. It went on for months. Some days as much as half of the links I posted would subsequently show up on Digg, including links to unusual and old content (which was a strong signal that the overlap was no mere coincidence). In 2019 Digg posted a job listing for a links curator, and I cheekily applied, noting that I'm already doing the job anyway, so they might as well pay me for it. They didn't take me up on it, but like magic, the poaching went away.
- rvba 3y ago
  How do you even make such a list nowadays? In the past tou could take stuff from forums, but now forums are dead. Facebook is trash so apart from known sources (is Rss dead?)organicly finding new stuff sounds harsh. Apart from maybe coppying from reddit / digg / wykop / some spanish reddit equivalent...
  - DamnInteresting 3y ago
    A few years ago I made a tool that fetches content from a big list of primary sources (via RSS or HTML), and pushes each link it finds through filters (keyword blacklist, duplicate check, etc). I made a UI that lets me accept or reject links Tinder style, and when I have a scrap of time to fill, I assess a few links. I also have a small group of well-read friends who make an effort to send me stuff, that helps a lot too.

by rvba 3y ago

probably_wrong 3y ago

The current Digg is doing its best to destroy the goodwill they collected with the slightly-less-current Digg. I started going there regularly about a year and a half ago, mostly because they would feature articles that I wouldn't find in my other typical websites. But in the last six months they have been optimizing to death, cutting anything that's not an instant success and publishing variant after variant of anything that's mildly successful (yay, another article on Twitter memes!). Clickbait titles are there too, along with a new-ish comment section that's 90% spam. It's been a sobering lesson on what happens when you put growth above everything.

DamnInteresting 3y ago

On another side note: I have been running an interesting link recommendation feed for many years now, and evidently in ~2018 someone curating links for Digg found my feed and started relying on it heavily to populate Digg's front page. It went on for months. Some days as much as half of the links I posted would subsequently show up on Digg, including links to unusual and old content (which was a strong signal that the overlap was no mere coincidence). In 2019 Digg posted a job listing for a links curator, and I cheekily applied, noting that I'm already doing the job anyway, so they might as well pay me for it. They didn't take me up on it, but like magic, the poaching went away.

rvba 3y ago
How do you even make such a list nowadays? In the past tou could take stuff from forums, but now forums are dead. Facebook is trash so apart from known sources (is Rss dead?)organicly finding new stuff sounds harsh. Apart from maybe coppying from reddit / digg / wykop / some spanish reddit equivalent...
- DamnInteresting 3y ago
  A few years ago I made a tool that fetches content from a big list of primary sources (via RSS or HTML), and pushes each link it finds through filters (keyword blacklist, duplicate check, etc). I made a UI that lets me accept or reject links Tinder style, and when I have a scrap of time to fill, I assess a few links. I also have a small group of well-read friends who make an effort to send me stuff, that helps a lot too.