Digg, the Web 2.0-era hyperlink aggregator that’s now being given a second chance at life, is open to purchasing Mozilla’s read-it-later app, Pocket.

On Thursday, Mozilla announced it would shut down Pocket on July 8, saying that the best way folks use the online has developed, and it wanted to concentrate on new areas of improvement. Shortly after, Kevin Rose, Digg’s authentic proprietor, now co-founder of the brand new Digg alongside Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian, posted on X that his firm could be interested by buying Pocket from Mozilla.

Tagging each Mozilla and Pocket on the submit, Rose wrote, “we love Pocket at @Digg, completely satisfied to take it over and proceed to help your customers for years to come back!” The submit moreover tagged Betaworks founding associate Peter Rojas, beforehand the founding father of Gizmodo and , now SVP New Merchandise at Mozilla.

Neither Digg nor Mozilla has but to reply to a request for touch upon the information. Nonetheless, the deal may very well be fascinating if it went by way of, as Digg might leverage Pocket’s present person base to gas curiosity in its relaunch. Digg might doubtlessly even combine Pocket’s studying listing with Digg, making it simpler for customers to seek out and share participating content material on to the information aggregator. This might present an preliminary pipeline for feeding information and articles into Digg whereas it labored to develop its person base.

Digg’s comeback has attracted consideration, because it pairs Digg’s authentic founder, Rose, with Ohanian, who helped create the longtime Digg competitor, Reddit, now an web large of its personal. Digg not too long ago introduced it has also brought on Christian Selig, the founding father of the third-party Reddit app Apollo, as an adviser. Selig’s Apollo app had been probably the greatest methods to work together with Reddit, however the firm reduce off the app’s entry by raising its API pricing to the purpose that it will have put Selig out of enterprise.

Digg isn’t the one one to have gone after Pocket. Medium CEO Tony Stubbleine says he additionally explored shopping for Pocket in 2023, however by no means heard from Mozilla earlier than it introduced it was shutting the app down.

“Undecided what Mozilla is doing, however it’s type of infuriating,” Stubbleine instructed TechCrunch. “The Pocket software program is straightforward to rebuild, however a few of the infrastructure and integrations across the net could be laborious to exchange. So I’m certain that somebody would have taken it on.”

Up to date after publication with remark from Stubbleine.