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Count me in the group of people sad to see it go because it made it very easy to get articles onto my Kobo e-reader. There are other ways, but they’re all too labour intensive to be practical. Probably should have seen the writing on the wall, though.
If you use KoReader, you can use Wallabag for the same purpose.
As a Kobo user who sends articles to my Kobo via Pocket A LOT, this is some hefty bullshit.
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.
Idiots. Buying a perfectly good service just to shut it down. I wonder if they even bothered looking for a buyer.
Also that new logo with the flag sucks.
The moment I setup an Omnivore account, it gets acquired and dies, the moment I switch to Pocket it’s dead lol, I think I’ll just move to some open source self hosted read it later app like Karakeep
No! Use your power for good! Switch to Facebook and X!
Pocket is one service of theirs I did use from time to time. Save an article you want to read later without committing it to a bookmark.
Nobody cared to use Pocket so its not surprising, btw what was that Fakespot thing?
Good.
Pocket was actually useful. To sent web content to my e reader…
My Kobo has the Pocket app and I’ll miss being able to send articles to it. Apparently I’ll be one of the few to be sad to see Pocket go.
YES! No more Pocket button sticking out like a sore thumb!
Pocket was silly, just use tabs and buy more RAM.
pocket I never used. I found it ugly and just s violation of privacy as it moved a service that should be local only, to external webservers. I can see why it’s finally had the plug pulled
It was redundant anyway, since it was just bookmarks with extra steps. But you can sync bookmarks between devices with Firefox anyway and you’ve been able to for years, so I have no idea why they kept it around other than to use it as a vehicle to push ads (because it seemed like roughly 25% of the “articles” it suggested to you were actually ads). I can’t say as I’m too sad to see it go.
Fakespot could arguably have been useful on paper, but I have to admit I never used it because I treat most online reviews as if they’re bullshit anyway.
the main thing with pocket and services like it is that it saves and syncs entire pages. like a local internet archive.
Thx for this.
Also, shout-out to https://karakeep.app/ (formerly “Hoarder”)
I wanted to like pocket but the articles were such useless slop crap. I feel bad for writers who actually have a passion for the craft but end up sitting down and shitting out low quality popsci articles all day.
Hey Op why was Microsoft Palestine thread removed?
Pocket is the sort of shit that makes me embarrassed to recommend Firefox.
