TIL Pocket is owned by Mozilla. I thought they are partners.
this post was submitted on 24 May 2025
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I thought digg was killed off by Reddit
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. 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
Will there be a $5 fee to access Pocket then?
Looks like they offered to take it not buy it. Hell throw my hat into the "please give it to me" ring
Pownce was awesome the short time it existed
Has anyone ever used pocket except by accident?
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.
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.
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.
Well sure you can save web pages. Pocket was a manager for that.
Is there a better free read later app?
Shiori is a single binary you can run on your desktop or host on a server. I use it all the time.
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.
Instapaper is nice and probably where I'll end up. Others have suggested Wallabag to me which has a less than 1€/month plan.
I'm just not sure what a read later app is even for. Can't you just leave the tab open?
"Why not just slow down your device?"
Tabs aren't meant as bookmarks. Read later is for saving anything to any amount of time, and it doesn't take up responses of your system, is searchable, has tags, reading view etc. Your comment is grandma with dementia level of tech illiteracy.
The internet is not always available for at least some people.
The main idea is that you can access it regardless of which device you're currently using. Like saving an article you see when you're on your PC for when you're about to leave so you can read it on your phone while on the train
Try readdeck or shiori (both self hostable)
not even by accident, lol
I loved pocket when it let me tap to turn but then that got stripped out and I never used it again
I miss revision 3.