Overview
- Founder Kevin Rose, with Alexis Ohanian and venture partners, reopened Digg on Wednesday after a months-long closed beta.
- Anyone can now join and create communities beyond the initial 21 general forums that hosted about 67,000 invite-only users.
- Community managers set their own rules, and Digg will publish moderation logs publicly to show how decisions are made.
- Planned trust trials include zero-knowledge proofs, product-ownership checks for niche groups, and mobile device signals to confirm real participation.
- A small team is shipping weekly updates, has an AI-generated daily podcast under review for a human host, and says it has years of runway without disclosing new funding.