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. Add 9to5Mac to your Google News feed.  FTC: We use income earning auto affiliate links. More.You’re reading 9to5Mac — experts who break news about Apple and its surrounding ecosystem, day after day. Be sure to check out our homepage for all the latest news, and follow 9to5Mac on Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn to stay in the loop. Don’t know where to start? Check out our exclusive stories, reviews, how-tos, and subscribe to our YouTube channel

Christian Selig, developer of the popular third-party Reddit app Apollo, is joining the rebooted Digg as an advisor alongside Digg founder Kevin Rose and Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian. TechCrunch reports: Earlier this year, Digg's original founder Kevin Rose and Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian acquired what was left of Digg in an attempt to revitalize what was formerly known as "the internet's homepage." Rose and Ohanian were already a fascinating pairing -- the two had previously seen each other as rivals, since Digg and Reddit were fierce competitors. By adding Selig to the mix, Rose and Ohanian are further signaling that the new Digg wants to shake things up. Selig played a prominent role in the backlash against Reddit's increased API pricing in 2023, which made free apps like Apollo -- which offered an enhanced browsing experience for Reddit users -- impossible to run. In a Reddit post that went viral, Selig told users that in order to keep Apollo running as-is under the new API pricing, he would need to pay about $1.7 million per month. Needless to say, Apollo shut down, much to the Reddit community's disappointment. "We're excited to have Selig bring that same craft and community-first thinking to Digg, helping us build something that feels good to use and even better to be a part of," said Digg CEO Justin Mezzell in a statement. Read more of this story at Slashdot.