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Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot

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1222 points phantomathkg | 1 comments | 22 May 25 16:30 UTC | HN request time: 0.206s | source
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Vinnl ◴[22 May 25 18:41 UTC] No.44065279[source]▶
One thing that unfortunately never got properly announced, is that over time Pocket was slowly open sourced piece-by-piece, mostly as it got rewritten/modernised, as I understand it: https://github.com/Pocket/

I guess the fact that it wasn't a big bang source code dump made it hard to make a moment of it.

(Note: open-source does not necessarily mean that it was optimised for self-hosting, which would've been a lot more work, of course.)

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1. whou ◴[24 May 25 13:01 UTC] No.44080801[source]▶
Totally! I loved using Pocket when I wasn't that crazy for FOSS advocacy. I've been checking their repos and forums here and there over the years to check if they open sourced everything, since that's been a promise since 2017. Last time I checked they still just had their mobile apps open sourced. Glad to see that they've finally released the back end source code! Excited to see community progress on making it self-hostable or forking it altogether!

Surprisingly, the Pocket's recommendations were their feature I liked the most that I never saw any other open source alternatives out there. Would love to use it again if it means that I keep my own recommendation data.