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.
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.
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Why don't they just open it up to let people run their own Pocket services? The usual "proprietary code" excuses make no sense for an organization like Mozilla and it's being end of lifed anyway. Just dump it on a repo somewhere and let people hack on it if they want to. Why isn't this part of the sunsetting plan?
code has been open for about 10 years. it was a binary blob to begin with but nowadays it's all here
Fair enough, last I heard it wasn't, and they certainly continue to talk like it isn't. It feels like maybe the shutdown post might've been a good place to try to spread some awareness of this fact as it might be something people losing access to the service might be interested in.
i mean the main reason they don't really advertise it as being self-hostable is the social aspect. the recommendation part doesn't work if everyone is on their own instance. not that i know anyone that uses the recommendations. it looks like that's the only thing they'll keep running though...
So what you're saying is that somebody needs to integrate it into the Fediverse.
personally i couldn't care less about the social features of a bookmarking service.