Ask Me Anything interview with Christian Selig, the creator of Apollo, the now retired Reddit app.
Christian is working with Digg as an advisor for the UI of their new app.
#digg
#Digg's founders explain how they're building a site for humans in the AI era | TechCrunch
Web 2.0 news aggregation giant, Digg was once valued at $175M at its height back in 2008 and is now being given new life under the direction of its original founder, Kevin Rose, and Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian. The two recently teamed up to announce a new vision for Digg, which will focus on enabling discovery and community, the way that the early internet once allowed for.
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/02/diggs-founders-explain-how-theyre-building-a-site-for-humans-in-the-ai-era/
Listening to Kevin Rose talk about what he wants the new Digg to be, and he's basically described the Fediverse... with AI moderation, but without decentralization.
PC World: Digg founder pitches Mozilla to save Pocket. “Pocket’s imminent demise has been bemoaned across the industry. Now, one entrepreneur has expressed interest in keeping it alive. Kevin Rose—who founded Digg.com, became a venture capitalist, and is now trying to bring Digg back—has petitioned Mozilla to let Digg take over Pocket.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/05/28/pc-world-digg-founder-pitches-mozilla-to-save-pocket/
#Digg founder Kevin Rose offers to buy #Pocket from #Mozilla - https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/23/digg-founder-kevin-rose-offers-to-buy-pocket-from-mozilla/ well, better than letting it die...
Digg mobile app screenshots (fake?)
This screenshot was recently released by the Digg team.
Digg was the predecessor to reddit, which destroyed itself with a catastrophically bad redesign, pushing everyone to move to reddit. Now, they're attempting a re-launch.
Looks like they're going all-in on gamification, which doesn't inspire much hope from me. It'll be interesting to see what eventually arrives.
UPDATE: My source for this was here which is supposedly a screenshot of a tweet by https://x.com/avstorm
But there is no tweet about digg by that account. Also the tweet doesn't fit the style of his other tweets.
So yeah. The whole thing is likely to be fake.
UPDATE 2: original tweet https://x.com/avstorm/status/1924956444673106374. But it has no attribution and afaik 'avstorm' is not affiliated with Digg. I still think it's fake.
Digg Mitgründer Kevin Rose interessiert an Kauf von Pocket von Mozilla
Mozilla plant die Einstellung der beliebten App Pocket am 8. Juli. Die Entscheidung fiel aufgrund der sich wandelnden Nutzung des Inter
https://www.apfeltalk.de/magazin/news/digg-mitgruender-kevin-rose-interessiert-an-kauf-von-pocket-von-mozilla/
#News #Tellerrand #AlexisOhanian #APIPreisanpassungen #ChristianSelig #Digg #KevinRose #Medienaggregation #Mozilla #Pocket #Technologiemarkt #bernahmeangebot #Wiederbelebung
On Saturday night I opened up #pocket on the web and deleted maybe 200 articles that I didn't need to read. Sync'd my Android app afterwards, and about two-thirds of them are still present.
Thought: the web site may not be the best to slim your saves before it shuts down.
Ende von Mozillas #Pocket-App ruft Kaufinteressenten auf den Plan | heise online https://www.heise.de/news/Ende-von-Mozillas-Pocket-App-ruft-Kaufinteressenten-auf-den-Plan-10395708.html #MozillaPocket #Mozilla #Digg #Medium
Digg founder Kevin Rose offers to buy Pocket from Mozilla | TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/23/digg-founder-kevin-rose-offers-to-buy-pocket-from-mozilla/
🚨 Mozilla apaga Pocket el 8 de julio… pero Kevin Rose, cofundador de Digg, se ofrece a salvarlo públicamente 😳 Mientras Digg resucita con fichajes potentes como Christian Selig (Apollo), ¿veremos renacer Pocket de sus cenizas? 🔥 #Pocket #Digg #Mozilla
@albertLH91 @wallabag Encara hi ha un bri d'esperança. El cofundador de Digg podria comprar el servei.
Interessant, falls es tatsächlich zu einer Übernahme von Pocket kommt, bekomme ich bestimmt automatisch einen Digg-Account. Für was das auch immer gut sein wird 😀
Digg co-founder and chairman Kevin Rose has made a public statement on the X platform suggesting that he is willing to take over the project. The post reads:
.@mozilla @Pocket -- we love Pocket at @digg, happy to take it over and continue to support your users for years to come! cc: @peterrojas :)
New #Digg just recuited and added @christianselig
https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/21/apollo-for-reddit-dev-christian-selig-to-join-digg-as-an-advisor/
Joined the new #Digg as a groundbreaker.
https://www.heartlessgamer.com/2025/04/digging-new-ground.html
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