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An alternative to Pocket?
(lemmy.world)
Karakeep
I always wondered why do people use Pocket. I just use bookmarks - for example: on the bookmarks toolbar in my browser, I have a folder named "movies to watch". I just drag the tabs into that folder. Isn't that similar to Pocket?
My brain being fried from the brainrot and not being able to comprehend "save to read later" probably also plays a part.
Premium Pocket actually cached a copy of the page.
It also had human-curated recommendations.
It had Kobo integration. I’m sure there’s alternatives, but it was nice to bookmark long form things on the computer to read on a flight later for example.
Pocket was pretty useless, but I want a service to share links with my friends. Maybe a federated one, but without votes. Like I just want to bookmark something and show it to my friends and see what they are looking at
Maybe linkhut then? https://drewdevault.com/2025/03/27/2025-03-27-Using-linkhut.html
Great, that's something I will check out, thanks
How about long-press on the address bar, then choose "Copy"? You can paste the link in the chat box with your friend.
That's the problem, all of my friends are on different platforms
We don't even have a federated chatting platform that everyone use. The average person is not going to go around verifying their sessions in matrix
Are you looking for a 1:1 alternative to pocket ?
I've heard good things about Readeck.
Linkace is similar but you'll have to wait a bit for their official instance
I found this while browsing after Pocket announced shutdown, but haven't used it. It's pitched as a Pocket alternative, has support for Pocket import and similar features, but I don't think there's a dedicated Linux app.
I personally use Linkora but it is a bookmark manager, doesn't have an in built reader. It has both appimage and deb packages and is available on other platforms as well.
Shiori is a Pocket clone but I haven't used it
Almost all Pocket alternatives need self hosting. I was using Joplin web clipper and now I just use Linkora.
There's also Linkwarden.
Chaski is mostly an RSS reader but it can find feeds for websites as said on it's page and dowload articles.
TLDR - If you just want to save/bookmark articles, give Linkora a try. Or you could use the web clipper of Joplin.
Pay the Wallabag man some money to host it for you. It's like $15 per year or something?
There is a software called Readeck
You can start to self-host it by refering to this page, or you can wait for their flagship managed hosting service for Readeck as stated in the page to.
So far, my Readeck usage experience is awesome, the content of 1 article I saved and read using Readeck was full and no ads and not messy and I could read the article without disruption.
Readeck is also available to self-host using YunoHost
Having just a lightweight laptop, I'm not looking for self-hosting, just a small piece of software...
Thanks a lot! :)
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this post was submitted on 22 Jun 2025
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