Digg founder Kevin Rose offers to buy Pocket from Mozilla

Digg founder Kevin Rose offers to buy Pocket from Mozilla
from Pro@programming.dev to technology@lemmy.world on 23 May 17:18
https://programming.dev/post/30878045

Robert Kevin Rose (born 1977) is an American Internet entrepreneur who co-founded Revision3, Digg, Pownce, and Milk. He also served as production assistant and co-host at TechTV’s The Screen Savers. From 2012 to 2015, he was a venture partner at GV.

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.@mozilla @Pocket -- we love Pocket at @digg, happy to take it over and continue to support your users for years to come! cc: @peterrojas :)

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DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world on 23 May 17:37 next collapse

Final nail in the coffin.

lennee@lemm.ee on 23 May 17:46 next collapse

lol

IllNess@infosec.pub on 23 May 18:50 collapse

Get a shovel. Time to Digg.

errer@lemmy.world on 23 May 23:19 collapse

Digg: the founding father of enshittification

urhovaldeko@lemmy.world on 23 May 17:40 next collapse

Digg is still alive?

tsugu@slrpnk.net on 23 May 17:47 next collapse

It’s going to re-launch soon

TheGreatSnacku@lemm.ee on 23 May 18:02 next collapse

Yeah they just had some bugs last go around and needed a bit of time (give or take 13 years) to fix them.

jaybone@lemmy.zip on 23 May 18:27 next collapse

They’re joining the fediverse.

sunzu2@thebrainbin.org on 23 May 18:35 next collapse

So did facebook... Deny the parasite engagement

MolecularCactus1324@lemmy.world on 23 May 18:45 collapse

Did they actually say that?

jaybone@lemmy.zip on 24 May 14:32 collapse

Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world on 23 May 19:29 next collapse

And the Apollo developer is apparently consulting on the mobile experience in one last “fuck you” to Reddit.

fluxion@lemmy.world on 23 May 20:17 next collapse

Lol, if they don’t blunder it i might actually check it out here and there just as a fuck you to reddit

Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world on 23 May 20:34 next collapse

Curiosity and nostalgia will definitely get me to check it out. I enjoyed digg before the v4 explosion that drove everyone to reddit.

Scrollone@feddit.it on 24 May 07:11 collapse

Why would you? We have Lemmy now.

JackbyDev@programming.dev on 24 May 00:02 collapse

Apollo was like the main one right? I was a rif user. Apollo’s dev is the one that spez literally lied about?

Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world on 24 May 00:34 collapse

Apollo was mostly a one man band, although I think Christian occasionally had someone helping out with services. The client side was basically all him.

And yeah, Christian posted all of Spez’s comms and showed that Spez was lying to the community.

metallic_substance@lemmy.world on 23 May 23:52 next collapse

lol. About 10 (maybe more) years too late

Psythik@lemm.ee on 24 May 00:05 collapse

Kevin Rose is in charge again? I thought he sold Digg after the massive failure that was v4 back in 2010.

Either way, I’m glad to see that digg is coming back. Reddit needs more competition. I’m hopeful that they will succeed this time around and steal back the user base that migrated to reddit and helped make them become the evil giant they are today (I am one such migrant).

DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social on 24 May 01:13 collapse

Insanity is doing the same thing and expecting a different result

shittydwarf@sh.itjust.works on 23 May 17:47 next collapse

What is dead can never die

brokenlcd@feddit.it on 23 May 17:55 next collapse

It died so hard it underflowed and came back to life. Poorly most likely.

can@sh.itjust.works on 23 May 18:58 next collapse

And they even hired the Apollo app dev

urhovaldeko@lemmy.world on 23 May 21:05 collapse

Really? Apollo was the best client, kinda miss it and the reddit that used to be.

can@sh.itjust.works on 23 May 21:46 next collapse

They hired him as an advisor

Have you tried the voyager app for Lemmy?

urhovaldeko@lemmy.world on 24 May 07:22 collapse

Yeah, that’s what I’m using.

Scrollone@feddit.it on 24 May 07:12 collapse

Yeah, I’m sad the developer didn’t make a fork for Lemmy.

But Voyager has a similar user experience and it’s for Lemmy.

urhovaldeko@lemmy.world on 24 May 07:21 collapse

That’s what I’m using now :)

gnutrino@programming.dev on 23 May 20:03 next collapse

That is not dead which can eternal lie, and with strange eons even Digg may come back.

BodilessGaze@sh.itjust.works on 23 May 23:05 collapse

Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Kevin Rose Digg wgah’nagl fhtagn

JackbyDev@programming.dev on 24 May 02:16 collapse

Gesundheit!

hopesdead@startrek.website on 23 May 22:17 next collapse

It was restarted in like the last year.

kratoz29@lemm.ee on 23 May 23:05 next collapse

I missed out on Digg and started right with Reddit, if it is alive or back, it would be a fun experiment (or maybe not a fun one).

darklamer@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 24 May 00:27 collapse

No.

Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world on 24 May 00:38 collapse

Rose just bought the name back. It’s relaunching soon.

AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space on 23 May 18:03 next collapse

New Pocket: now with blockchain and AI.

jungle@lemmy.world on 23 May 18:41 collapse

You’ll be able to save websites as NFTs! Yay!!!

CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 23 May 21:28 collapse

I feel like that’s just urls but with extra steps!

4am@lemm.ee on 23 May 23:24 collapse

I mean that’s literally what an NFT is

YoiksAndAway@lemmy.zip on 23 May 18:24 next collapse

Good news for Kobo owners!

chrisbit@leminal.space on 23 May 22:33 collapse

As someone who’s never used Pocket but recently got a Kobo and saw there’s an integration, I was a little annoyed they were shutting it down. I wonder if Kobo will create their own service to fill the gap? Given how hackable the device is, I’m sure the community will if they don’t.

sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works on 23 May 22:53 next collapse

Same. I literally got a Kobo last week (hoping for a Mother’s Day sale that never happened).

YoiksAndAway@lemmy.zip on 24 May 00:11 collapse

I hope that we can just transition form Mozilla Pocket to Digg Pocket without much hassle, but that probably won’t happen. I understand all the hate for Pocket I’ve seen over the last two days because it’s useless to most people, but man, there’s a really good use case for Kobo owners.

jaybone@lemmy.zip on 23 May 18:25 next collapse

Didn’t know he did something on Screen Savers. But I seem to remember the show being much older than what they mention.

EDIT oh I see I misread the dates in OP. It makes more sense now.

mhague@lemmy.world on 23 May 18:39 next collapse

I distinctly remember the two Kevins as hosts around the time I watched G4TV. I ended up playing a game called Blockland for years after they showed it on air. Somehow I never realized Kevin Rose went on to become that Kevin Rose.

no_me_jodas@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 23 May 18:51 next collapse

I still call him the Dark Tipper

fluxion@lemmy.world on 23 May 20:23 collapse

I used to be in a constant state of amazement that there was a cable TV channel dedicated to gaming. Screen savers was such a fun show.

MolecularCactus1324@lemmy.world on 23 May 18:54 next collapse

Yeah he was on Screen Savers with Sarah Lane (who he dated) and then Alex Albrecht. TechTV was bought by G4 and Screen Savers became Attack of the Show. While at TechTV, he started digg and actually advertised it on the Screen Savers, without clarifying that he was the owner (sneaky). Later, G4 fired all the Tech TV staff, so Kevin worked on digg full time. He went on to start diggnation podcast with Alex Albrecht — which they’ve recently brought back. As many know, when digg v4 launched, it was widely rejected, and the site lost its user base to Reddit. Now he’s trying to revive it with one of the Reddit cofounders after more than a decade.

Paradox@lemdro.id on 23 May 19:23 next collapse

Used screen savers to bootstrap digg by free advertising

Jimmycakes@lemmy.world on 23 May 22:17 collapse

He was literally on air talent lol

db2@lemmy.world on 23 May 18:30 next collapse

He really wants to get his hand in the Pocket pool.

snoons@lemmy.ca on 23 May 18:59 next collapse

I thought pocket was okay for finding stuff to read while pooping, but I turned it off when I started getting horoscope and astrology articles in my science feed.

Brewchin@lemmy.world on 23 May 19:51 collapse

That sounds more like Flipboard than Pocket?

But I’ve not used either in many years, and I’ve never been a fan of algorithmic discovery, so it’s possible Pocket went down that route, too.

Zier@fedia.io on 23 May 20:20 next collapse

I have disabled Pocket since it was first offered in FF.

TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world on 23 May 21:40 next collapse

Pocket is something that I think sounds super neat in theory, but I never actually personally found any use for it.

And while I don’t think it was wrong for Mozilla to try to find an avenue for a more diversified income, I feel like they overpaid for Pocket, and it was the wrong thing to try to make money from.

sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works on 23 May 22:52 collapse

My main issue is that they forced it on everyone. You had to explicitly opt-out instead of opt-in. If they had made it an extension and recommended it on upgrade or something, I would’ve been fine with it. Or if they had a very clear privacy policy around it. But the rollout was sketchy enough that I knee-jerk disabled it when I saw it.

The idea itself is totally fine, desirable even. I have an ereader, and it makes a ton of sense to save things for later reading. But the product rubbed me the wrong way, so I refused to use it.

ssfckdt@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 23 May 22:22 next collapse

Wish someone had done this for Reader

phoenixz@lemmy.ca on 24 May 00:21 next collapse

Digg will take it over?

I’ll put down some money to see how fast this will be a closed source enshittified subscription product

HenryBenry@lemm.ee on 24 May 03:30 collapse

… it’s always been a close sourced subscription service.

phoenixz@lemmy.ca on 24 May 22:18 collapse

That last part…

HenryBenry@lemm.ee on 26 May 13:49 collapse

What last part?

phoenixz@lemmy.ca on 26 May 20:27 collapse

Enshittified subscription service

HenryBenry@lemm.ee on 27 May 00:47 collapse

IMO it was already shitty.

synae@lemmy.sdf.org on 24 May 02:49 next collapse

Thank goodness, my smattering of defunct porn links will be saved

roserose56@lemmy.ca on 24 May 03:01 next collapse

If its not turned into a pay thing take it!

MisterMoo@lemmy.world on 24 May 05:50 collapse

Then they release Pocket v4 which everyone hates, usage dwindles but they refuse to roll back, and then it finally dies.