The all-new Digg is once again here to rival Reddit

Digg opened its public beta to users on January 14, 2026, allowing access via website and mobile app without invite codes after a closed phase with 67,000 participants.

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The relaunch positions the platform as a direct competitor to Reddit, featuring community feeds where users post, comment and upvote content known as digging.

Original founder Kevin Rose and Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian acquired Digg in March 2025 through a buyout involving True Ventures, Seven Seven Six, S32 and personal investments from Rose and Ohanian.

Digg CEO Justin Mezzell leads operations with a small team focused on weekly feature updates.

“We kind of opted for … let’s just keep building this plane as we fly it,” Mezzell said on the development strategy.

The platform launched with 21 communities covering topics such as gaming, technology and entertainment, and users can now establish their own communities on niche subjects with public moderation logs.

Digg integrates AI to combat bots and toxicity through trust signals, including zero-knowledge proofs for verification and requirements to prove ownership in specialized communities, such as confirming possession of specific tech hardware.

“We obviously don’t want to force everyone down some kind of crazy KYC process,” Rose said on user verification.

An AI-generated podcast called Digg Daily recaps top stories, with potential shifts to human hosting based on feedback.

Digg originated as a news aggregation site in the early 2000s, peaking at a $175 million valuation in 2008 before a 2010 redesign prompted a user exodus to Reddit.

The site was sold to Betaworks in 2012, received investment from Gannett in 2016 and transferred to Buysellads in 2018.

“The beautiful thing about this launch is we’re finally at the place with Digg where it’s just that the foundational stuff is done, and now we can really start having fun,” Rose said.

The relaunch of Digg is going to be wild this time, as AI is going to power this once famous platform.