Digg.com Closing Due to Spam

everdrive

Bots really are ruining the internet, and are one of the driving factors in a lot of the identity verification and age gating. Both pressures are going to combine to destroy what we once had with the internet.

r721

Active discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47368135

ranger_danger

Apparently there is a "conspiracy" theory that age/ID verification is secretly being pushed as a solution to bots. https://a.imagem.app/G3QHnV.png

tokyobreakfast

Where's the dupe guy when we need him most?