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Re:Mozilla to shut down Pocket on July 8 by sambaumann on Thursday May 22, 2025 @01:52PM (#44064701)
anyone have any good suggestions for a self-hosted option?
Re:Mozilla to shut down Pocket on July 8 by InsideOutSanta on Thursday May 22, 2025 @02:15PM (#44064987)
I've tried all of the options: Linkwarden, Linkding, Karakeep, Shiori, Wallabag, Grimoire—you name it, I've tried it. These are all great tools, and I use Karakeep myself, but I use it to bookmark and archive links, not as a "read it later" tool.

In my opinion, no self-hosted read-it-later tool can replace Instapaper or Pocket, as they focus on providing an exceptional reading experience in a native app that works offline. None of the self-hosted tools offer a comparable experience.

So, depending on how you used Pocket, there are either better or no self-hosted options.

I wish Mozilla would open-source Pocket so it could be made into a self-hostable option.

> Wallabag

Re:Mozilla to shut down Pocket on July 8 by import on Thursday May 22, 2025 @03:55PM (#44066157)
They open sourced some stuff already https://github.com/Pocket
Re:Mozilla to shut down Pocket on July 8 by ikomrad on Tuesday May 27, 2025 @04:46PM (#44110536)
I’m in process of trying different tools.

I broke requirements down to 3 use cases

Links I visit often (general bookmarks) Links I visit once( read later) Links I preserve forever (offline storage)

Re:Mozilla to shut down Pocket on July 8 by asciimoo on Thursday May 22, 2025 @03:50PM (#44066078)
I'm using & developing Omnom (read-only demo: https://omnom.zone/ ). It is self-hosted, free software, fediverse compatible and creates 1:1 snapshots of the saved websites: https://github.com/asciimoo/omnom
Re:Mozilla to shut down Pocket on July 8 by codethief on Thursday May 22, 2025 @05:41PM (#44067415)
Great project name!
Re:Mozilla to shut down Pocket on July 8 by fivestones on Friday May 23, 2025 @11:53AM (#44073945)
This looks great! Does it capture the website from what is currently rendered in the browser, or does it get it through a separate get request? In other words, if I am on a site that is only locally available or is logged in, will it still capture the website?
Re:Mozilla to shut down Pocket on July 8 by cycomanic on Thursday May 22, 2025 @03:14PM (#44065657)
There is readeck, linkwarden and karakeep. Each has a slight different focus (readeck probably has the most read it later focus). There is also omnivore, but I have been struggling to get it to work selhosting (there currently is a bug that prevents signing in), it is also quite resource heavy.
Re:Mozilla to shut down Pocket on July 8 by pratio on Thursday May 22, 2025 @01:59PM (#44064794)
I use linkding https://github.com/sissbruecker/linkding

Have been hosting it for years, there’s a browser extension and a phone app by a third party developer as well.

I also tried readeck for a while but went back to lindking because of missing features

https://readeck.org/en/

There’s also linkwarden

https://github.com/linkwarden/linkwarden

Too colourful for me, can’t like the design

And there’s also karakeep

https://github.com/karakeep-app/karakeep

Re:Mozilla to shut down Pocket on July 8 by enjikaka on Thursday May 22, 2025 @03:58PM (#44066185)
I wrote this Deno script to convert the Pocket CSV export to a Bookmark HTML-file so that it can be imported to Linkding: https://github.com/enjikaka/pocket-to-bookmark
Re:Mozilla to shut down Pocket on July 8 by appel on Saturday May 31, 2025 @10:16AM (#44144422)
Thank you! Hope you don't mind, but I took the liberty to have Gemini convert it to python, since I'm not familiar with Deno. Appears to work just fine. I posted a gist here in case it is useful to anyone else: https://gist.github.com/appel/a6accfab384f80cb12c9c20a1075e9...

I'm of course happy to take it down if you do mind, just let me know. And thank you again!

Re:Mozilla to shut down Pocket on July 8 by ikomrad on Thursday May 29, 2025 @08:36AM (#44125463)
What features were missing? I can only think of offline reading.
Re:Mozilla to shut down Pocket on July 8 by jonotime on Thursday May 22, 2025 @02:54PM (#44065419)
Oh man. I have been working on a side project just for this purpose. The aim is to create a pocket like experience (with additional functionality like handling other media types) that is local first, unhosted, and more future-proof (no lock in).

All data is stored entirely on your device, and you have the option to sync it to your own storage provider like dropbox. This means you don't need to have the technical know-how to setup and maintain a server.

Its not usable yet, as I have rewritten it several times, but in the current iteration it is a client side PWA, so cross platform. Just started a new job so had to take a break for a bit.

Follow if you are interested (I need to update the Readme): https://github.com/jonocodes/savr

Re:Mozilla to shut down Pocket on July 8 by netghost on Thursday May 22, 2025 @02:34PM (#44065196)
This might come off as dismissive, but after using services like Delicious from way back, I've more or less ended up using Obsidian to edit a few markdown files that contain links to stuff I liked.

I know there are services that offer more, but if I look at how I __actually__ used them, this does the trick.

Re:Mozilla to shut down Pocket on July 8 by akirk on Thursday May 22, 2025 @02:32PM (#44065180)
WordPress + Friends + Post Collection plugins (+send to e-reader), see https://youtu.be/kHaODAUazwE?t=214
Re:Mozilla to shut down Pocket on July 8 by duck on Thursday May 22, 2025 @01:58PM (#44064773)
I've been using https://github.com/sissbruecker/linkding and highly recommend it.
Re:Mozilla to shut down Pocket on July 8 by monooso on Thursday May 22, 2025 @02:14PM (#44064969)
I don't understand the Linkding recommendations.

AFAICT Linkding is a bookmarking app, much like Pinboard, not a read-later app like Pocket.

Re:Mozilla to shut down Pocket on July 8 by pratio on Thursday May 22, 2025 @03:14PM (#44065656)
I totally understand you and it seems that a lot of users like myself were using pocket as way to sync bookmarks across devices as well.

Also, linkding offers a way to read it later by using the singlefilextension https://linkding.link/archiving/

Re:Mozilla to shut down Pocket on July 8 by monooso on Thursday May 22, 2025 @04:58PM (#44066922)
Thanks for the clarification.
Re:Mozilla to shut down Pocket on July 8 by ikomrad on Tuesday May 27, 2025 @06:50PM (#44111360)
Linkding is basically a reading list with some extra features like downloading an arching copy , notes, and tags.

I think of Wallabag and Readeck as readers since they render the page in “app” , keep track of your reading progress, and in some cases let you highlight text

Re:Mozilla to shut down Pocket on July 8 by nfriedly on Thursday May 22, 2025 @02:01PM (#44064818)
I've been using Readeck, but I never actually used pocket, so I'm not sure how comparable they are.
Re:Mozilla to shut down Pocket on July 8 by pkaye on Thursday May 22, 2025 @02:10PM (#44064924)
Karakeep is good. You can import the pocket bookmarks. It can do automatic AI tagging.