A Humorous Report on The State of Digg in January 2026

I made this appreciation post about how awesome it was that /digglist was created.

When I was writing it, I thought it would be fun to add a hypothetical about what we can do with that early data. If you take a look at the first communities that are now taking form since public beta launch day, it would be really interesting to study from a sociological or academic perspective. I'm not one, but I thought it could be fun to dig into that data!

Soo... I used a little AI to dig into this but didn't have it write what I'm about to report below.

But first, a few notes:

• Please don't take this too seriously! This is just for fun and I know the info graph that it generated is wayyyy off. But I decided to leave it in there because that image is pretty much how I feel the last 2 days has been. A bit of a whirlwind for the Digg team I'm sure, but also pretty funny and not overly serious. It's the weekend now, so I hope the team can take a little break. It's been mostly kind and mostly fun. And the donut bagel graph thing made me laugh!

• I'm really looking forward to where we go from here. I sincerely wonder: Are we going to model ourselves off of existing competitor sites (you know which one)? Or are we going to be our own thing? How are we doing that? What will make this a place one that we want to grow our communities in?

Anyway, my "findings":

Since Digg’s public beta launch two days ago, we've generated roughly 5,300 communities (counted by digglist, that is)! For those who want to skim, I manually bolded the interesting parts myself.

1. The largest cluster is around local / places. We see cities, regions, and countries. This is pretty cool because I immediately thought of the "Things" aspect of Digg's "People. Places. Things." slogan this time around.

2. For better or for worse, AI told me that AI is also a big cluster in this space. 😅 So we have a lot of AI tools, coding, cybersecurity, AI workflow communities, etc.

3. Also, we have a big gaming cluster too! Which seems to reflect in game specific titles or maybe a gamer-skewed founder population?

4. There's also identity / life communities (parenting, neurodivergence, religion, gender/sexuality, mental health) clusters.

5. Not quite as big, but there's also a sizeable chunk for business/marketing related communities.

6. Community names are mostly pretty descriptive and search‑friendly. Like, plain words like /creditcards . This one isn't really shocking.

7. This one also made me chuckle: We see familiar genres like “askX” , but also extremely niche interests, from /bacteriophages to /gluten-free-croissants !

Other facts that AI spit out that I didn't curate as thoughtfully:

• AI takes the crown for prefixes: Out of thousands of names, “ai” is the most common prefix by far (25 communities starting with it), ahead of “best” (13), “the” (12), and “ask” (7), signaling that AI enthusiasts are aggressively staking out namespace early. (OP's note: yikes 😭)

• Hyphens everywhere: 661 community names use hyphens (about 12% of the total), way more than numbers (128 names), showing a strong preference for SEO‑style formatting like /ai-tools-testing over pure keywords or numbers.

• Almost no duplicates: Most names are unique, with the longest community name clocking in at 24 characters: /a-sony-camera-photograph .