Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot

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

omnivore got acquired, they shut down: https://web.archive.org/web/20250503155629/https://blog.omni...

I've been wanting a tool that does exactly one thing, keep the bookmarks of Firefox and Chrome synced on my local PC. I don't want collaboration, distributed, cloud first, SaaS, friends, notifications, tags, AI, or anything else. Any suggestions for a tool like that?

It is Self-Hostable. I worked on the self-hosting stuff. Follow the guide here if you're interested: https://github.com/omnivore-app/omnivore/blob/main/self-host...

Don't forget Readeck. I've been super pleased with it. (Omnivore is dead btw.)

I've been super happy with karakeep: https://github.com/karakeep-app/karakeep

It does have an "import from pocket" feature builtin.

The dev is suuuuper nice and the features have been nicely coming along. Can't wait to see all the features announced.

Omnivore is open source, bit weird people insist on open source because 'future proof' and then when the commercial entity disappears, it's 'dead'. Why do people make their own instead of making an entity around what is already there if it was liked and open? Very much a validation for not open sourcing anyway. But then again, I cannot possibly use Obsidian or so because when they sell the place (not if, when), sure I have the open format, but not the nice tooling. I rather struggle with inferior open source products and contribute on those than having to go through these 'Google bought us, you have 2 months to export your data' kind of thing.

Right, I was referring more to the commercial project (similar to Pocket ending). I was testy about it because it was one of the best I'd seen in a while ... until it wasn't. I'm glad it's continued on as an open source, community project.

You can still host it, and pressumably it should keep working, I wouldn't set up a new instance with it because I don't quite see an active dev community around it (But I do with Wallabag or Shiori), no one is stopping the community if there's interest

Around obsidian, as long as you avoid plugins that don't store data as plain text there's nothing to export and you could use any text editor (Or even IDE) in place of obsidian

No boilerplate has an interesting video about it, Obsidian: The Good Parts [1], I can open my Vault with VSCode or nvim and have all my data, sans the pretty views, because I also avoid the non text extensions, and if push comes to shove, I can grep for tags or something simple like that

Obsidian might sell (Maybe when one of the founders/owners go away), but it's not like they have investors to appease, they could keep the show going indefinitely as far as I can tell

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0yAy2j-9V0

I tried readeck and missed being able to download pages for offline storage. Also , the interface is confuse as when you mark and article as “read” , it still appears in the “unread” view. You have to archive a page to remove it from Unread.

The dev knows about it, but hasn’t fixed it yet.

The app was easy on install and it looks nice, but it needs some work.