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Digg founder Kevin Rose offers to buy Pocket from Mozilla (programming.dev)

submitted 20 hours ago by Pro@programming.dev to c/firefox@lemmy.ml

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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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[–] Midnitte@beehaw.org 5 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

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?

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 0 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] Midnitte@beehaw.org 2 points 4 hours ago

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