Kevin Rose and Alexis get Ohanian Digg

Here’s an explosion from the past: DiggOne of the early news parliament of the Internet is now under the original founder’s ownership Kevin Gul. It should be noted that he joins the Reddit Co-founder as a joint owner Alexis Ohanian (both described above).

Digg and Reddit at once, once each other’s use of each other over a year, once there were violent competitors in the online news aggregate. In years of interfering with two platforms, various owners and spin-offs enjoyed similar trajectories. However, Reddit’s tolerance was the most noteworthy because the company finally went out to the public an ipo in a bumper and her User growth continued upward in the next months.

Digg, in turn, did not keep the test of time very well. Company Divided into parts in 2012 purchase Betaworks to the incubatorBy acquiring some assets with LinkedIn and Washington Post. Then Digg raised a strategic circuit of funding Gannett, the owner of the United States today, before To get down into the hands of digital advertising company BuySellads who earn a majority share in 2018.

‘A fresh vision’

Digg never rises to the same heights as Reddit, so Rose and Ohanian are now “a fresh vision and exciting place to revive the” to revive “platform” and a branded soul “to restore” the spirit of an exciting society. ” Press release given today.

Rose, Digg says “at different times” in terms of purchase, Digg said that in terms of purchase, the right time never felt like the time.

So why now? The existing social media view is a combination of the cause of a reason that is found to be poisonous, mixed and wrong format.

“Recently, the EU can be a useful pilot to help users and moderates, but more users have laid more deeply, but also a large number of recurring loads for public moderators.

Ohanian has fallen from Reddit for years, First leaving in 2009 previous Returns as the chairman In 2014 and then down the board In total in 2020. And this week, Ohanian Frank McCourt’s offer joined Buy Tiktok’s business in the United States.

“Online communities are developing in case of equilibrium between technology and human judgment,” Ohanian said. “We bring a Digg back to ensure that the balance is. Kevin and I here are here to build something better than what social platforms offer today. When focusing on what the best people do, they must work in the background: build the truth.”

He invested in both flowers and Ohanian, other companies, years, as individuals and institutional funds. This experience is now cut with real enterprises rising as a partner; and Ohanian established Seven seven investments in Digg.

Rose serves as Chairman and Adviser to Digg and the seat on the Ohian board will be headed by a new embodiment Justin mezzelkKevin Gül and the “Leader of the Leader” and “Leader of the season” and “Leader of seasonal product design”, made a press release.

A new version of the Digg platform is taken to start broadcasting with invited in the coming weeks.