AFAIK it will also stop working as soon as the Api costs come into effect.

There is quite a bunch of journalists on Mastodon though.

Some people are building systems on top of Mastodon, for example https://fedistats.cc/trends In the end something like "plug in your own algorithm" would be great.

Or use Rdx

It's funny to read this article about the death of Digg again:

In reality, Digg changed their business model and pretended that they didn’t. That is something that is unacceptable with communities and won’t be forgotten. Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian hit the nail on the head in an open letter to (now former) Digg CEO – Kevin Rose:

“You chose to grow with venture capital and you’ve no doubt (I hope) taken some money off the table in your Series C round. I say this because this new version of digg reeks of VC meddling. It’s cobbling together features from more popular sites and departing from the core of digg, which was to “give the power back to the people.”

https://searchengineland.com/digg-v4-how-to-successfully-kill-a-community-50450>

And they are still hiring engineers to build this NFT marketplace, just saw a job ad on LinkedIn the other day

Same.