I tried the new Digg beta, and it's the friendlier Reddit alternative I've been waiting for

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ZDNET's key takeaways

• Digg, the pre-Reddit social news site, is back.
• The revived Digg will again compete with Reddit.
• The new Digg uses AI, but users will call the shots, not algorithms. 

Digg, one of the original Web 2.0 social news darlings, is back from the dead, and this time it is explicitly gunning for Reddit's crown as the "Front Page of the Internet." Under the renewed leadership of founder Kevin Rose and Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian, the resurrected Digg pitches itself as a community‑driven, AI‑assisted, low‑toxicity social news alternative. 

To understand this reboot, it helps to consider just how far Digg fell. Launched in 2004, Digg helped invent the crowd‑curated news model years before Reddit's success. In 2006, Digg was one of the top 25 American websites ...