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Mozilla is shutting down Pocket, their read-it-later and content discovery app, and Fakespot, their browser extension that analyzes the authenticity of online product reviews. (blog.mozilla.org)
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[–] Australis13@fedia.io 14 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Really disappointed to lose Pocket. I am a big user of it and found it very convenient to save articles of interest as well as collecting anything that looked interesting that I might want to read. Have both the Android app and use it on the desktop.

Now I'm going to have to find a substitute.

[–] Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 day ago

I liked the concept but immediately thought "this is gonna get dropped eventually and I'll lose all the shit I saved". Looks like I was right.

[–] harlyson@lemm.ee 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Let us know if you find a replacement. I have pocket on my e-reader and I’m going to miss it

[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Perhaps Wallabag, a self-hostable service to save and categorize articles?

Also @Australis13@fedia.io and @ratzki@discuss.tchncs.de

[–] BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Karakeep is another open source read it later app that is popular

[–] Australis13@fedia.io 1 points 1 day ago

Based on https://fedia.io/m/selfhosted@lemmy.world/t/2206365/Alternatives-to-MZLA-Pocket I'm going to try Wallabag and/or Readeck. Probably the critical issue is whether you can self-host or not:

  • Wallabag has a paid public instance, but Readeck you'd have to host yourself until their public service launches later this year (see https://readeck.org/en/start)
  • Wallabag uses the Pocket API to transfer data (so I think you'd need to migrate before Pocket shuts down), whilst Readeck can import the file produced by a Pocket export.
  • Wallabag has phone apps, whilst Readeck is browser-only (does your e-reader support a browser?)
  • Readeck can export to ebook formats (so might be more useful for e-readers in this regard); not sure about Wallabag