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Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot

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Re: Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot

#121
There are a ton of bookmarking software, and good, and self-hosted.

- karakeep

- grimoire

- omnivore

- wallabag

- linkwarden

I myself use RSS reader / bookmark manager that I wrote [1]. Everything is open source. Even data [2] [3].

Links

[1] https://github.com/rumca-js/Django-link-archive

[2] https://github.com/rumca-js/Internet-Places-Database

[3] https://github.com/rumca-js/RSS-Link-Database

Re: Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot

#122

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…

I have been using Obsidian Web Clipper to save stuff to read later. If you already use Obsidian it's worth a shot. It's not perfect but it does a reasonable job of translating articles etc. into markdown. I don't actually know if it saves images locally, I suspect not (which is probably a pretty big weakness)

Re: Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot

#123
post #90

Well, crap. I've had a Pocket account for more than ten years. It's a key feature on my Kobo devices, to boot. I hope Kobo manages to find some alternative provider for similar functionality, rather than just dropping it altogether. EDIT: Oh, and worth noting that this product will officially die before Mozilla fulfills its promise to open source it, back when they acquired Pocket. Thanks, guys.

I use KOReader [1] on my Kobo. It supports Wallabag [2]. Wallabag offers both hosted [3] and self-hosted options. There's also a standalone kobo client for Wallabag [4]. In addition, Wallabag also supports direct import from Pocket. [1] https://koreader.rocks/ [2] https://wallabag.org/ [3] https://www.wallabag.it/en [4] https://gitlab.com/anarcat/wallabako

This is amazing. Thank you!

Re: Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot

#124

I had submitted the Mozilla blog post about this and Fakespot ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44063930 ) but this submission seems to have received the traction. I added a comment to my submission pointing here.

Email the mods about this and they can cleanup and merge the dupes.

Well, there aren't any dupes. :-) But thanks.

Re: Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot

#125

Well, crap. I've had a Pocket account for more than ten years. It's a key feature on my Kobo devices, to boot. I hope Kobo manages to find some alternative provider for similar functionality, rather than just dropping it altogether. EDIT: Oh, and worth noting that this product will officially die before Mozilla fulfills its promise to open source it, back when they acquired Pocket. Thanks, guys.

https://github.com/Pocket/pocket-monorepo

Re: Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot

#126

They should at least allow to download their copy of the saved articles, PDF or HTML or whatever format they save it in. This is such a betrayal. Some old links might not exist anymore, so it's useless to only get the links. EDIT: Betrayal, because the main reason I paid for Pocket was the archiving of articles and now I can't actually export the archived copies. Their decision of not enabling export of the archived…

I think doing this would expose how poorly they've actually saved their copies of articles. Pocket has always had a very funny definition of "permanent copy" which doesn't mean what you think it does! I'm a little saddened by their demise but the service has been so terrible for so long that I've long since moved to the much superior Readwise.

Re: Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot

#127

Kobo (ereader) + Pocket was always just an amazing and low friction combo. This blows.

My first thought as well. I wonder what Kobo will do in response to this announcement.

Me too, I hope there will be a replacement with the same low friction.

I've been using IFTTT with RSS feeds to add serialized stories to my Kobo as they release.

Re: Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot

#128

Saving links and offline reading is dime a dozen nowadays, but the one BIG feature was recommended articles, which basically opened the reading list of the world and you could read extremely interesting longform articles based on your list. It was the best magazine you could imagine. But I guess it required maintenance and moderation so they axed it - in the typical fashion of an acquired product I might say. I still…

I'm not sure what you're missing from all the existing discover features in other products, but NewsBlur has a feature that sounds like that. https://blog.newsblur.com/2025/02/02/discover-related-storie...

Re: Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot

#129

Saving links and offline reading is dime a dozen nowadays, but the one BIG feature was recommended articles, which basically opened the reading list of the world and you could read extremely interesting longform articles based on your list. It was the best magazine you could imagine. But I guess it required maintenance and moderation so they axed it - in the typical fashion of an acquired product I might say. I still…

> the one BIG feature was recommended articles The TWO BIG features were recommended articles and integration with IFTTT. I think, of the suggested alternatives, only Instapaper has IFTTT integration (modulo setting up a local webhook). Given I have multiple things per day (and have for 10+ years) going into Pocket, this is going to be a big pain in the arse to deal with.

You could try Wallabag. It provides 3 separate RSS feeds per saved link status, that could trigger IFTT.

Re: Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot

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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?

Karakeep is good. You can import the pocket bookmarks. It can do automatic AI tagging.
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