Then they release Pocket v4 which everyone hates, usage dwindles but they refuse to roll back, and then it finally dies.
New Pocket: now with blockchain and AI.
You'll be able to save websites as NFTs! Yay!!!
I feel like that's just urls but with extra steps!
I mean that’s literally what an NFT is
Final nail in the coffin.
Get a shovel. Time to Digg.
Digg: the founding father of enshittification
lol
Digg is still alive?
It's going to re-launch soon
And the Apollo developer is apparently consulting on the mobile experience in one last “fuck you” to Reddit.
Lol, if they don't blunder it i might actually check it out here and there just as a fuck you to reddit
Why would you? We have Lemmy now.
Curiosity and nostalgia will definitely get me to check it out. I enjoyed digg before the v4 explosion that drove everyone to reddit.
Apollo was like the main one right? I was a rif user. Apollo's dev is the one that spez literally lied about?
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.
Yeah they just had some bugs last go around and needed a bit of time (give or take 13 years) to fix them.
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).
What is dead can never die
That is not dead which can eternal lie, and with strange eons even Digg may come back.
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Kevin Rose Digg wgah'nagl fhtagn
It died so hard it underflowed and came back to life. Poorly most likely.
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.
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.
I have disabled Pocket since it was first offered in FF.
Digg will take it over?
I'll put down some money to see how fast this will be a closed source enshittified subscription product
… it’s always been a close sourced subscription service.
That last part...
What last part?
Enshittified subscription service
IMO it was already shitty.
Good news for Kobo owners!
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.
Same. I literally got a Kobo last week (hoping for a Mother's Day sale that never happened).
Thank goodness, my smattering of defunct porn links will be saved
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.
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.
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.
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.
Wish someone had done this for Reader
He really wants to get his hand in the Pocket pool.
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