Christian Selig, the iOS developer who led the beloved Reddit client of third parties, Apollo joins the new iteration of DIGG as an adviser.
Earlier this year, Digg’s original founder Kevin Rose and co-founder of Reddit Alexis Ohanian gained what was left of DIGG in an attempt to revitalize what was previously known as ‘the homepage of the internet’. Rose and Ohanian were already a fascinating combination – the two had seen each other as rivals, because Digg and Reddit were fierce competitors.
By adding to the mix, Rose and Ohanian also indicate that the new Digg wants to shake things up.
Selig played a prominent role in the return against the increased API prices of Reddit in 2023, which made free apps such as Apollo -which offered an improved browse experience for Reddit -users -impossible to run. In one Reddit Post That went viral, weighing users that he had to pay about $ 1.7 million a month to run Apollo as under the new API prices. Unnecessary to say that Apollo was closed, much to the disappointment of the Reddit community.
“We are pleased to have the same craft and community-first thinking taken to dig to dig, so that we can build something that is good to use and even better to be part of,” said Digg CEO Justin Mezzell in a statement.
Digg starts a search to make the social internet feel fun again, in contrast to its current state, where Ai shrimp Jesus And other artificially generated slop have taken over our feeds. But Digg is not yet completely ready to open to the public. Last month, Digg opened registrations for an early access, which calls it ‘careCters’, which requires a one-off $ 5 compensation to keep bots out. (The proceeds of the program are donated to non -profit organizations chosen by the DIGG community.)
In the announcement of the role of Selig, Mezzell took a brutal reference to the API drama at Reddit. “I just won’t comment on that. We have mapped our own course here at DIGG,” said Mezzell. “But if I would comment, I would probably say”[redact] I sideways, what a mess. “But that would only be if I said something publicly. ‘
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