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210 points mstef | 3 comments | | HN request time: 0.735s | source

a bit of background. this is a rewrite of omnom by asciimoo - the guy who also made searx. originally i wrote omnom, back in the days when del.icio.us was enshittified and gone down the drain. instead of complaining i was taking the opportunity to write a replacement that i would want, it became omnom, and for many years me and a bunch of users were very happy with it.

but the fast moving world of browser extensions made maintenance (for a non-commercial free software side project) too expensive, so the extension support became erratic, until it died completely. for a year or two i didn't use it.

but then asked asciimo if he could have a look a the extensions (since he was recently working on another extension, so had some experience), he looked at it, and rewrote the whole thing in go and fixed the extension. he even got support from nlnet/ngi0.

if you want to have your own self-hosted libre software bookmarking service for you and your community, give it a go, it's very simple, privacy respecting and most robust when it comes to snapshotting. asciimoo did a great job.

1. apitman ◴[] No.43681783[source]
Since it requires a browser extension anyway, is it possible to build something like this local-first and lean on Chrome/Firefox built-in syncing?
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2. jonotime ◴[] No.43682107[source]
+1 for local-first. there needs to be a local first bookmark/snapshot manager. where you can own your data without requiring hosting or installing things.
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3. cyberge99 ◴[] No.43688860[source]
Buku does this. You have to run bukubrowse server locally, but the extension then connects to localhost. I have a cli that lists my bookmarks and makes it easy for me to copy/paste or clickopen.