They promised to make Pocket fully open source 8+ years ago, but never delievered.
https://www.opensourceforu.com/2017/02/mozilla-transforms-read-later-app-pocket-open-source-project/
Alex Akselrod
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⚠️ Important PSA about #Pocket ‼️
If you used Pocket to save interesting articles you found online, you may be aware that #Mozilla decided to shut down the app and discontinue support.
I vaguely remembered that date was July and had a mini-heart attack when I saw it was actually July 8.
Good news though: if you, like me, have hundreds of articles saved to Pocket, you have until October 8 to request an export of your data (I just did): https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/future-of-pocket
Next up: moving to @wallabag 🤗
Agaric Tech Collective
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⚠️ Important PSA about #Pocket ‼️
If you used Pocket to save interesting articles you found online, you may be aware that #Mozilla decided to shut down the app and discontinue support.
I vaguely remembered that date was July and had a mini-heart attack when I saw it was actually July 8.
Good news though: if you, like me, have hundreds of articles saved to Pocket, you have until October 8 to request an export of your data (I just did): https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/future-of-pocket
Next up: moving to @wallabag 🤗
RE: https://mastodon.social/@_elena/114845119132934981
Routine PSA: #Mozilla will shut down #Pocket on October 8th and delete all user data. You have a week left to request an export of your archive.
(My first request returned a corrupt file, so I'm going for a second round now. Fingers crossed).
⚠️ Important PSA about #Pocket ‼️
If you used Pocket to save interesting articles you found online, you may be aware that #Mozilla decided to shut down the app and discontinue support.
I vaguely remembered that date was July and had a mini-heart attack when I saw it was actually July 8.
Good news though: if you, like me, have hundreds of articles saved to Pocket, you have until October 8 to request an export of your data (I just did): https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/future-of-pocket
Next up: moving to @wallabag 🤗
RE: https://mastodon.social/@_elena/114845119132934981
Routine PSA: #Mozilla will shut down #Pocket on October 8th and delete all user data. You have a week left to request an export of your archive.
(My first request returned a corrupt file, so I'm going for a second round now. Fingers crossed).
With Mozilla's #Pocket shutting down (articles are already unavailable, exports can be retrieved through 8 October 2025, see: https://web.archive.org/web/20250927204616/https://getpocket.com/home), I've exported the list of URLs I'd logged with the service.
One of my longstanding gripes was that there was no way for me to get a total of the articles I'd saved.
(There ... were other gripes.)
I now know: 30,735.
In an ideal world, this would have been a useful library of references. I'd tagged many of these (including, eventually, adopting a convention of tagging by archive date which Pocket surely must've known somewhere in its data schema, but petulantly hid from its users), through a loose but somewhat controlled vocabulary influenced in part by both my general interests and some familiarity with existing library ontologies, classifications, and subject headings.
I'm kicking around what to do with this archive. One question of course is how many of the links have since rotted (I suspect a high percentage). I've got a few leads on readability-rendering (including a bash script invoking JS ... somehow ... I've got to look at). Tracking down archived copies, and spinning up a media server, would also be handy.
#Mozilla #GetPocket #Shutdown #Libraries #KFC #KnowledgeManagement #WhyIsContentManagementSoShiteStill
Kobo is bringing Instapaper integrated to its eBook readers. You can use it to send web articles to your eReader. With Mozilla shutting down its Pocket service, Instapaper will offer similar functionality for Kobo users moving forward. #Kobo#Instapaper#Pocket#Mozilla#eReadershttps://blog.instapaper.com/post/789685899750424576/instapaper-rakuten-kobo-integration
⚠️ Important PSA about #Pocket ‼️
If you used Pocket to save interesting articles you found online, you may be aware that #Mozilla decided to shut down the app and discontinue support.
I vaguely remembered that date was July and had a mini-heart attack when I saw it was actually July 8.
Good news though: if you, like me, have hundreds of articles saved to Pocket, you have until October 8 to request an export of your data (I just did): https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/future-of-pocket
Next up: moving to @wallabag 🤗
Le Alternative
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📬 È uscita la nuova newsletter dei Devol
Mozilla dice addio a #Pocket: una riflessione sul futuro dei servizi online e sull’importanza di scegliere alternative libere come #Readeck o #Wallabag.
✉️ La newsletter di Devol spiega in modo semplice e diretto il Fediverso e come vivere online senza dipendere dai Big Tech.
Ci si iscrive qui 👉 https://newsletter.devol.it/
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📬 È uscita la nuova newsletter dei Devol
Mozilla dice addio a #Pocket: una riflessione sul futuro dei servizi online e sull’importanza di scegliere alternative libere come #Readeck o #Wallabag.
✉️ La newsletter di Devol spiega in modo semplice e diretto il Fediverso e come vivere online senza dipendere dai Big Tech.
Ci si iscrive qui 👉 https://newsletter.devol.it/
Messaggio pubblicato anche sul gruppo Open Source, seguibile qui: @opensource
PSA: (sob) Time to remove the Share to #Pocket button from your websites
Pocket will shut down July 8, 2025.
Which alternative to Pocket should I choose?
As @TechCrunch said few months ago, @wallabag « is a strong competitor with article-saving tools and features as good as what Pocket offers. »
https://wallabag.it/en/blog/2025/06/23/which-alternative-to-pocket-should-i-choose/
> wallabag.it is powerful, private, hosted in Europe and affordable.
#wallabag #pocket#alternatives #shutdown #opensource #foss #readitlater