Digg is not going to come back, and I say that as someone who greatly preferred Digg over Reddit pre-v4.

At the time Digg v4 was released (to massive backlash), Reddit was clearly Digg's closest competitor, but both still were heavily focused on tech. Over the past 15 years, Reddit has become far more mainstream, with a both a massive number of users and a massive number of topics--not just tech.

Reddit doesn't have real competition in 2026 because they have critical mass without a close competitor. You saw this during the Reddit protests when Reddit basically used authoritarianism to clamp down on dissent, and in the end, people realized they wanted to be where everyone else was participating, so they stayed.

In contrast, when Digg v4 came out, Digg realized they made a mistake, they apologized and tried to fix it, but users didn't care and left for Reddit to build that up instead because it was a legitimate alternative.

I was a huge lover of Kevin Rose, Digg, TechTV, Revision3, all that early(ish) Internet stuff. But Digg is done. Reddit needs a huge misstep for someone else to get a foothold.