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Re: Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot

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Post by pratio »

sambaumann wrote: post #99
_def wrote: post #18

> Your export file will include links (URLs) of your saved items. The export does not extract the text of saved links. Additionally, the export does not contain tags or highlights. boo! without the tags, the links will be mostly useless for me. Every now and then I thought aboyt switching to some self-hosted solution. Should've done it sooner... and I will never trust Mozilla with any service again.

anyone have any good suggestions for a self-hosted option?

I use linkding https://github.com/sissbruecker/linkding

Have been hosting it for years, there’s a browser extension and a phone app by a third party developer as well.

I also tried readeck for a while but went back to lindking because of missing features

https://readeck.org/en/

There’s also linkwarden

https://github.com/linkwarden/linkwarden

Too colourful for me, can’t like the design

And there’s also karakeep

https://github.com/karakeep-app/karakeep

Re: Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot

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Post by nfriedly »

sambaumann wrote: post #99
_def wrote: post #18

> Your export file will include links (URLs) of your saved items. The export does not extract the text of saved links. Additionally, the export does not contain tags or highlights. boo! without the tags, the links will be mostly useless for me. Every now and then I thought aboyt switching to some self-hosted solution. Should've done it sooner... and I will never trust Mozilla with any service again.

anyone have any good suggestions for a self-hosted option?

I've been using Readeck, but I never actually used pocket, so I'm not sure how comparable they are.

Re: Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot

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Post by plorkyeran »

sureste wrote: post #25

Everytime people talked about Mozilla or Firefox the main complaint was Pocket. Everytime. Yet most people here are sad to see it go. What gives?

If you don't use Pocket then the acquisition was bad because they spent a bunch of money buying an unrelated company to add a feature you don't want. If you do use Pocket then the acquisition was bad because you don't want to be relying on a weird side project of a company because they'll do a terrible job of maintaining it and it'll inevitably get shut down.

Re: Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot

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Post by JohnFen »

jonas21 wrote: post #77
asadotzler wrote: post #54

~90% of HN commenters who mentioned Pocket in the last decade or so have been complaining about Mozilla's wasted effort on Pocket and how no one asked for it and how it was just another Mozilla "scam" and now that it's being removed, ~90% of the comments are "sad" and "I used it a lot."

This is a perfectly reasonable distribution once you consider that only a small fraction of people who really care about something are motivated enough to comment about it. There's a small group who complain loudly about Pocket, a small group who are really sad to see it go, and probably a much larger group that either doesn't know what Pocket is or doesn't care enough to write a comment. It's important to keep this…

This.

I'm in the "didn't really care either way" camp. Pocket was not something interesting or useful to me, but I could remove it from the UI so its existence also wasn't annoying to me.

Re: Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot

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Post by [deleted] »

dlojudice wrote: post #104
testfrequency wrote: post #19

Super bummed about this. I know a surprising number of high profile CEOs and founders who live by Pocket, really has just been quietly reliable and simple way to reserve content for later. Despite there being so many other $apps that can fill the gap here, none of them seem to be as clean and straightforward as Pocket has been for me. Anyone here paying for Matter or Readwise? I know Instapaper may seem to be the obv…

> Anyone here paying for Matter or Readwise? I know Instapaper may seem to be the obvious migration path, but since my landlord is kicking me out, maybe it’s time I move to a more robust solution. I'd love to know where to migrate my Pocket data. The funny thing is that I had "Migrate Pocket" on my calendar for June 30th. And are you serious that the exported data doesn't have the tags? Really? I wonder how a databas…

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Re: Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot

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Post by zimpenfish »

cosmic_cheese wrote: post #69
asadotzler wrote: post #54

~90% of HN commenters who mentioned Pocket in the last decade or so have been complaining about Mozilla's wasted effort on Pocket and how no one asked for it and how it was just another Mozilla "scam" and now that it's being removed, ~90% of the comments are "sad" and "I used it a lot."

The two opinions aren’t necessarily mutually exclusive. I used and enjoyed Pocket, but never paid a dime for it so I can’t imagine that Mozilla made much if any money off of me. That’s probably true for most users, and as such it’s not difficult to imagine that Pocket ended up being a bad purchase for Mozilla in terms of diversifying income.

> I used and enjoyed Pocket, but never paid a dime for it

I did subscribe to Pocket Premium for a while but it wasn't really worth the money (plus they were being arseholes when I was asked for API support.)

Re: Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot

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Post by interestica »

advisedwang wrote: post #34
sureste wrote: post #25

Everytime people talked about Mozilla or Firefox the main complaint was Pocket. Everytime. Yet most people here are sad to see it go. What gives?

Some people hated pocket, and would complain about it. Different people liked pocket and are commenting here. The community has people with different viewpoints, and you are seeing different people's comments on different stories (either because different people are commenting or because different comments are getting voted to be visible).

Nicely articulated. I think their comment encapsulates the disbelief people have about public opinions that differ from their own political viewpoints (and the aspects that had been amplified within their own media/algorithmic bubble).
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