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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      • GhostalmediaEnglish
        61·
        3 months ago

        And the Apollo developer is apparently consulting on the mobile experience in one last “fuck you” to Reddit.

        • fluxionEnglish
          21·
          3 months ago

          Lol, if they don’t blunder it i might actually check it out here and there just as a fuck you to reddit

          • GhostalmediaEnglish
            11·
            3 months ago

            Curiosity and nostalgia will definitely get me to check it out. I enjoyed digg before the v4 explosion that drove everyone to reddit.

        • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
          18·
          3 months ago

          Apollo was like the main one right? I was a rif user. Apollo’s dev is the one that spez literally lied about?

          • GhostalmediaEnglish
            23·
            3 months ago

            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.

      • TheGreatSnacku@lemm.eeEnglish
        423·
        3 months ago

        Yeah they just had some bugs last go around and needed a bit of time (give or take 13 years) to fix them.

      • Psythik@lemm.eeEnglish
        7·
        3 months ago

        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).

    • brokenlcd@feddit.itEnglish
      91·
      3 months ago

      It died so hard it underflowed and came back to life. Poorly most likely.

      • urhovaldekoEnglish
        7·
        3 months ago

        Really? Apollo was the best client, kinda miss it and the reddit that used to be.

    • kratoz29@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      3 months ago

      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).

      • GhostalmediaEnglish
        2·
        3 months ago

        Rose just bought the name back. It’s relaunching soon.

  • TheGrandNagusEnglish
    56·
    3 months ago

    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.

    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      35·
      3 months ago

      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.

  • Zier@fedia.io
    483·
    3 months ago

    I have disabled Pocket since it was first offered in FF.

  • MisterMooEnglish
    29·
    3 months ago

    Then they release Pocket v4 which everyone hates, usage dwindles but they refuse to roll back, and then it finally dies.

  • Phoenixz@lemmy.caEnglish
    305·
    3 months ago

    Digg will take it over?

    I’ll put down some money to see how fast this will be a closed source enshittified subscription product

    • chrisbit@leminal.spaceEnglish
      9·
      3 months ago

      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.

      • YoiksAndAway@lemmy.zipEnglish
        4·
        3 months ago

        I hope that we can just transition form Mozilla Pocket to Digg Pocket without much hassle, but that probably won’t happen. I understand all the hate for Pocket I’ve seen over the last two days because it’s useless to most people, but man, there’s a really good use case for Kobo owners.

  • snoons@lemmy.caEnglish
    10·
    3 months ago

    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.

    • BrewchinEnglish
      51·
      3 months ago

      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.

  • jaybone@lemmy.zipEnglish
    9·
    3 months ago

    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.

    • mhagueEnglish
      6·
      3 months ago

      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.

      • fluxionEnglish
        2·
        3 months ago

        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.

  • db2English
    6·
    3 months ago

    He really wants to get his hand in the Pocket pool.