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Then they release Pocket v4 which everyone hates, usage dwindles but they refuse to roll back, and then it finally dies.
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.
Final nail in the coffin.
Get a shovel. Time to Digg.
Digg: the founding father of enshittification
lol
Digg is still alive?
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
Gesundheit!
And they even hired the Apollo app dev
Really? Apollo was the best client, kinda miss it and the reddit that used to be.
They hired him as an advisor
Have you tried the voyager app for Lemmy?
Yeah, that’s what I’m using.
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).
It was restarted in like the last year.
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…
If its not turned into a pay thing take it!
Good news for Kobo owners!
Wish someone had done this for Reader
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.
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.
He really wants to get his hand in the Pocket pool.
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.
He was literally on air talent lol
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.
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.
