Re:Mozilla to shut down Pocket on July 8
by laweijfmvo on Thursday May 22, 2025 @03:22PM
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they really went out of their way to include as many "Why" sections and links as possible without saying a single word about why.
the internet is no longer designed to be readable.
it is designed to be profitable.
Re:Mozilla to shut down Pocket on July 8
by Henchman21 on Thursday May 22, 2025 @04:40PM
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Its also no longer designed for users, but for the advertisers and bots.
Re:Mozilla to shut down Pocket on July 8
by fkfyshroglk on Thursday May 22, 2025 @07:19PM
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Yea, but that matters less than you think in this context as what I want (a bookmark service for bookmarks) matters a lot less than how the service is marketed and funded.
They killed off the live bookmarks feature that I still miss in favor of this and it was never the same.
My rss feeds are still around from then. Glad I didn't invest in this fad.
Re:Mozilla to shut down Pocket on July 8
by fkfyshroglk on Thursday May 22, 2025 @07:21PM
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There is still no solid way to persist RSS feeds (...especially the content they actually refer to) to private storage. Any serious archiving service today will need to undertake snapshotting a website as it stands without relying on such sickly, secondary signals.
...but where RSS is reliable, yes, it's amazing.
Interesting. I saw it as a glorified bookmarking service and saw the readability concerns as what raised red flags for me: mozilla just inherently isn't interested in competing on value rather than on marketing.