Digg, once known as the 'front page of the Internet,' is being revived by its founder Kevin Rose and Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian. After a significant decline post-2010 redesign and multiple ownership changes, the duo aims to bring back the platform's essence of discovery and community. They plan to leverage AI for spam filtering and content moderation to free human users to engage more authentically. Justin Mezzell, with extensive tech industry experience, will serve as CEO while Rose advises as Board Chair. Support is also provided by True Ventures and Ohanian's Seven Seven Six.
Kevin Rose, Digg's original founder, and Alexis Ohanian, co-founder of Reddit, have teamed up to revive the social platform with a fresh vision to restore the spirit of discovery and genuine community that made the early web a fun and exciting place to be.
Just recently we've hit an inflection point where AI can become a helpful co-pilot to users and moderators, not replacing human conversation, but rather augmenting it, allowing users to dig deeper.
The idea is that AI will do the heavy lifting when it comes to spam filtering and removing toxic content, while human moderators and users can focus on finding and discussing cool new things on the Internet.
Rose will serve as Board Chair and key adviser. Justin Mezzell will take on the CEO role. Mezzell has over 15 years of experience and has worked with Google, Facebook, Twitter and PayPal.
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