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How do you postpone tabs or links for future reading? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 4 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I used to bookmark the pages I'd like to read in the future, but I'm loosing track of them. Sometimes I even forget about them. So how do you organize or postpone the links you want to visit later? Is pocket a good solution?

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 years ago (1 children)

Some people use RSS readers for that. But for this precise problem the beloved tool is Wallabag. It's entirely free-software and selfhostable, although the developer provides a paid (cheap) instance to support development.

I'm really sad Mozilla, among other user-hostile changes, acquired a closed-source centralized startup (Pocket) to integrate into Firefox, despite users explicitly asking them to support a FLOSS selfhosted solution.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 years ago (1 children)

I'm too stupid to self host and too poor to pay for wallabag. : (

This is what someone from Mozilla said in Pocket's Matrix room:

For your question about open source, that is still a goal for Pocket and since the acquisition, we've open sourced some parts of our platform, including our extensions and some build tools. This is something that remains important to us, but it does take time as it requires code review, auditing, etc.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 years ago (1 children)

Despite all the respect i have for Mozilla devs (not the execs, they're user-hostile assholes payed in millions), this is pure bullshit. Pocket was started in 2007. Even if (hypothetically) it was not destined to be free-software and selfhostable at the time, Mozilla acquired Pocket 4 years ago now (2017). If there were actual concerns about reviewing/auditing, Pocket would never have been integrated by default into Firefox (i hope). It does not take that long to review/audit a simple piece of software storing links (admittedly, it does a little more, but not that much more).

I almost bought that narrative 4 years ago, despite being very disappointed that Mozilla spent a considerable amount of money on a sketchy startup that produces non-free software that you can't even selfhost (contrary to Firefox Sync which was initially designed to be selfhostable, but well that dream also evaporated due to Mozilla taking other directions). Now, it's too late. Mozilla direction has become increasingly user-hostile: telemetry by default, dropped RSS support, increased implementation of bullshit standards (DRM, battery API..), home-page advertisement..

The only path left for Mozilla employees (those faithful idealists who haven't left) is to fork Mozilla as a workers coop (no execs, no difference in pay, full operational transparency) to regain autonomy in regards to their project priorities (so cool projects don't die for zero reasons like Persona/FirefoxOS), and to regain user trust which is slowly eroding over time (for good reason). Mozilla used to be a friendly FLOSS community, but over the past decade it's looking more and more like a startup. Don't know if still the case, but for example Mozilla employees couldn't (according to contract) tell anyone about their paycheck. Is that how FLOSS should be developed?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 years ago* (last edited 4 years ago)

The only path left for Mozilla employees (those faithful idealists who haven’t left) is to fork Mozilla as a workers coop (no execs, no difference in pay, full operational transparency)

A co-op can have executives (voted on by the workers) and differences in pay (as part of a pay schedule, voted on by the workers).

Don’t know if still the case, but for example Mozilla employees couldn’t (according to contract) tell anyone about their paycheck.

This is heinous.

Is that how FLOSS should be developed?

Yes, all businesses should be worker-owned.