6 publishers and 1 “celebrity” have controlled the Digg Top News section for the past 3 days. This story over at Media Caffeine called Digg: The Broken Covenant (aka Selling Out to “The Man”) gives a clear indication that the shortcomings of Digg v4 go well beyond the bugs, beyond the fake positive press, and beyond the end of content curation.
It’s uglier than we thought.
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this has now changed to 90% reddit.com
So much for the democratization of content on the web. This is disgusting. The whole premise of this site has been violated.
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