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🏗️ Digg’s open beta shuts down after just two months, blaming AI bot spam

The Verge

Despite that, Mezzell paints the shutdown as temporary, saying, “We’re not giving up. Digg isn’t going away,” with “A small but determined team is stepping up to rebuild with a completely reimagined angle of attack.”

I think sites like this should have a modest paywall. $10 a year or something like that with free access for students and other ways to reach out for access for people who can’t afford it. Would keep the bots out and probably just make it a better environment.

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🎲 Just admit you’re playing the game

Manu

You either believe in something and you’re willing to power through, or you don’t, and you do what everybody else is doing.

I guess it’s safe to say Manu doesn’t believe in the idea that “the truest sign of intelligence is the ability to entertain two contradictory ideas simultaneously.”

I don’t know who or what this is in reference to, but as a general idea it feels like a shortsighted, heat-of-the-moment type statement that ignores the reality of the world millions of people are forced to reckon with everyday of their lives.

If I

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