Digg did not die because it had too many AI bots, or Spam, I was on Digg. The complaining about spam bots is nothing but an attempt to hide the fact they were intentionally fudging their numbers, from the beta to the launch posts went up 10s of thousands in supposed daily viewership and interaction. It's transparent that reddit guy, who previously followed Reddit when they were in their infancy told them to just copy every reddit play. Not realizing that people don't fucking want Reddit again, they already have Reddit, and with the potential capital that Digg was exposing themselves too they could have stood to challenge that. Hell, this is being posted to nostr and there are proof of concept reddit clones built on Nostr that probably could stand a chance at being big if they had Jack money. Overall Digg just seemed like such a waste of potential and all their blog post does is make excuses about things that don't appear to be real, and I'm not holding my breath on them continuing Digg but if they do, they'll likely be befallen by the same plight.