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A comment on Mozilla to shut down Pocket on July 8. Parent comment

Re:Mozilla to shut down Pocket on July 8 by snafferty on Thursday May 22, 2025 @07:47PM (#44068380)
That seems pretty clear to me—many people were using it at one point, but now few are, so it's not worth maintaining.
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Re:Mozilla to shut down Pocket on July 8 by andyjohnson0 on Friday May 23, 2025 @03:50AM (#44070808)
But why are few people using it?

Critical mass of people using app-based walled gardens? Something else?

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Re:Mozilla to shut down Pocket on July 8 by _Algernon_ on Friday May 23, 2025 @04:29AM (#44071018)
They took a tool that is fundamentally about separating curation and consumption of content, then added back the same type of for-you algorithm driven social media, engagement maximizing stuff that people wanted to escape. Not exactly surprising that people don't want to use it.
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