Technology
The Rise, Fall, and Stubborn Resurrection of Digg: The Website That Tried to Own the Internet
Before Reddit became the self-proclaimed front page of the internet, there was Digg — a scrappy, user-powered news aggregator that briefly felt like the future of media. This is the story of how it rose to cultural dominance, imploded spectacularly, and kept coming back for more.
Mar 12, 2026