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Digg founder Kevin Rose offers to buy Pocket from Mozilla

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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Has anyone ever used pocket except by accident?
- Is there a better free read later app?
  
  I'm just not sure what a read later app is even for. Can't you just leave the tab open?
  
  Try readdeck or shiori (both self hostable)
  
  Instapaper has a free plan. Personally, I moved away from Instapaper and use the extension MarkDownload to save pages as Markdown and import that into Obsidian.
  
  I've switched to Raindrop.io since hearing about Pocket shutting down, it seems cool!
  
  Shiori is a single binary you can run on your desktop or host on a server. I use it all the time.
- Yes, many times. For a while I tried to use it as a read later for articles. But I never managed to actually remember to go back and read later the things I saved. I honestly think it's a useful tool. You can save articles offline to read later.
  
  So I had no idea you could use it to read offline. But I remember saving webpages to read later back in the 00s. I remember you could even choose how many links deep you wanted to save. Is this really no longer available?
  Actually I like Offpunk for this kind of functionality, but that's not very mainstream.
- I love Pocket! However, as what most people mentioned, there are too many articles to keep up. I have years worth of backlog.
  
  I never view it as a "to do list of must reads" but as just another feed but curated really good stuff.
- not even by accident, lol
- yep, I used to save articles on pocket for my study so I could read it later.
  After writing, I'd need to cite all the statements in my paper, pocket provided an easy list to reference.
Looks like they offered to take it not buy it. Hell throw my hat into the "please give it to me" ring
- Mozilla is shutting down pocket on July 8, 2025. Maybe that's why
Let him have it. Pocket never was the kind of tool I'd use to save and organize info I find online. But if anyone else is worried sick about this here are some easily browsable alternatives: https://alternativeto.net/category/books--news/read-later/
I... dont want to think about what Digg would do to it, or since no one remembers Digg has everyone forgotten about the 2010 redesign, and why Digg was sold to BuySellAds in 2018?
- Kevin Rose and Alexis Ohanian own Digg now. Alexis Ohanian never worked at Digg and Kevin Rose was replaced as CEO by the board in 2010 for non-involvement. It's still going to be a non-federated for profit platform. But there's no reason to think they would ruin Pocket or even change it dramatically.
  
  But there's no reason to think they would ruin Pocket or even change it dramatically
  Except that's exactly what they did to Digg in 2010
I loved pocket when it let me tap to turn but then that got stripped out and I never used it again
- What did tap to turn do?
  
  Paginated articles so I could "turn pages" with my volume keys or tapping the screen instead of scrolling. Useful for me because I like eink devices.
TIL Pocket is owned by Mozilla. I thought they are partners.
Will there be a $5 fee to access Pocket then?
I thought digg was killed off by Reddit
- It was before my time but I believe digg was killed by digg. Reddit just happened to be in the right place at the right time
- They are relaunching it
Pownce was awesome the short time it existed
I miss revision 3.

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