Elena Rossini ⁂
@_elena@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 5 days ago

⚠️ 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 🤗
shom ✊🏽🐧📷🤿🏔️🪚
@shom@gts.shom.dev  ·  activity timestamp 5 days ago
@_elena I was using Wallabag but switched to @readeck (available via YunoHost) and wrote about my journey.

I would encourage you to check out Readeck, it explicitly supports importing from Pocket. Highlights compared to Wallabag:

  • highlighting text and having them show up in one spot
  • saving a Mastodon thread
  • saving a video and automatically getting the transcript (so video topics show up in text search)
  • saving content behind login wall (you save what you see in your browser)
  • link sharing with the highlights
Jen T 🎗
@wpcommaven@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 5 days ago
@_elena A lot I found in the Wayback Machine, but many were just gone.

Frankly I was grateful for the unintended housecleaning. Figured if I have to save the article to read later, what are the chances that I will.

Granted having the Pocket app on my mobile made for a lot of catch up while traveling, but still... #priorities

Good luck with the new set-up!