Just one day after Mozilla confirmed it’s shutting down Pocket, Digg co-founder and chairman Kevin Rose has stepped up with a public offer to take it over.
Save-it-now
In a post on X, Rose tagged both Mozilla and Pocket directly, saying:
Mozilla announced Thursday that Pocket will officially shut down on July 8, with its API and user data set to disappear completely by October 8.
The company framed the decision as part of a broader strategy to narrow its focus around Firefox, citing evolving user habits. Mozilla wrote:
Pocket has helped millions save articles and discover stories worth reading. But the way people save and consume content on the web has evolved, so we’re channeling our resources into projects that better match browsing habits today. Discovery also continues to evolve; Pocket helped shape the curated content recommendations you already see in Firefox, and that experience will keep getting better. Meanwhile, new features like Tab Groups and enhanced bookmarks now provide built-in ways to manage reading lists easily.
Wait, Digg?
Yep! In case you missed it, the app is making a comeback. And the new leadership, formed by its co-founder Kevin Rose in partnership with Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian, is hitting the ground running.
Just two days ago, they announced that Christian Selig, best known for building the now-defunct Apollo app for Reddit, is joining as an advisor. Selig said he’s helping Digg “build something new and exciting,” though details remain under wraps for now.
Whether Rose’s offer to rescue Pocket will be taken seriously by Mozilla remains to be seen. But for longtime users mourning the loss of one of the App Store’s most beloved read-it-later tools ever (except maybe for Instapaper users), it’s at least a flicker of hope.
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