I was an early supporter this time round, and a couple of weeks after it opened to the public, I closed my account.
Below is the support email I sent about why. To Digg’s credit, I had a lovely interaction with someone called Aleks who explained upcoming filtering features that would help me. I suspect they lost their job now.
Despite Digg shutting because of the overwhelming misbehaviour of bots, the interaction that sent me away again was actually with a human being, as I outline in my email below. So there’s that, at least.
Email sent January 20, 2026 to Digg Support:
“Thanks Aleks.
In the case the feedback is of interest to the team, I deleted my account last night (having been a financial supporter of the early access scheme).
The /Politics Digg is full of rightwing propaganda, misinformation and closeted racism and I had a particularly unpleasant interaction with someone calling asylum seekers in the UK ‘illegals’ and then swearing at me and calling me a ‘fascist’ for pointing out that term was dehumanising (I reported his reply for the personal attack).
Sadly, I do not need another firehose of horrible people in my life, so Digg turns out not to be for me.
I fully understand you want Digg to be a place for free speech and multiple views and that’s totally fine. I just don’t need it in my life, so this is an entirely personal decision, not a comment on the product.
I just thought you might like to know, as these early experiences are so important for people when you want to grow your platform. If they encounter people being horrible, then like me, they are unlikely to give Digg a shot.
I wish you all luck and I hope you can find a way not to become another cesspool like large parts of Reddit have become.
With best wishes,
Sam”