On another side note: I have been running an interesting link recommendation feed for many years now, and evidently in ~2018 someone curating links for Digg found my feed and started relying on it heavily to populate Digg's front page. It went on for months. Some days as much as half of the links I posted would subsequently show up on Digg, including links to unusual and old content (which was a strong signal that the overlap was no mere coincidence).

In 2019 Digg posted a job listing for a links curator, and I cheekily applied, noting that I'm already doing the job anyway, so they might as well pay me for it. They didn't take me up on it, but like magic, the poaching went away.