Today marked the end of my regular use of digg as I unsubscribed from their RSS feed. Between election spam, recycled links from dozens of sites I already read, or whatever insipid Top 10 list got spammed to the front page by people gaming the system, digg has become a torrent or useless information. Their RSS feed kicks out hundreds of posts every day; missing one or two days with Google Reader results in a level of flotsam management that makes my inbox look downright tidy.
I'd ditched the diggnation podcast a while ago, mostly because I never got around to actually watching the thing. I haven't missed it at all and I doubt I'll miss digg much either. Since signing up in mid-2005, I was an avid user of digg; I didn't submit many stories (2, actually) mostly because I was reading such interesting stuff that other people put up. But, with digg's more recent turns towards becoming a full-on social site (leaving "news" behind), it's become a bastion for the worst of the web; spammers, trolls, and SEO "consultants".
So, I'm done with digg. Any suggestions (and don't say reddit) for other, early-days-digg sites?
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I subscribe to DZone.com, which has a very similar set-up to Digg. I only read about 1/5th of the links there, however, and I've never submitted anything.
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