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  • LWD@lemm.ee
    393·
    14 days ago

    I understand retiring Pocket after a long, long run.

    But what’s up with ending FakeSpot? They just bought that. They spent an undisclosed amount of money and are now abandoning it.

    Is the FakeSpot shuttering a sign of money totally wasted, or should I be concerned that the FakeSpot TOS allowed them to sell user data (specifically in the event of an acquisition) right before the Mozilla acquisition?

    • Vincent@feddit.nl
      101·
      14 days ago

      I expect that Fakespot already had problems funding themselves, and thus they were a relatively cheap acquisition, and now it turned out they couldn’t cover their own costs as part of Mozilla either. But I’ve never used it so I have no idea.

    • thingsiplay@beehaw.org
      4·
      14 days ago

      what’s up with ending FakeSpot? They just bought that.

      Assuming the tool was not accepted and used well enough by the user base. Also Mozilla got all user data and the technology. Maybe they plan on a new project that implements part of it in the future? Mozilla is currently experimenting a lot. Shutting down lot of services should be expected.

  • Karna@lemmy.ml
    12·
    13 days ago

    Mozilla should make Fakepost source code open-source so that people (with right hardware) can self-host it.

      • moonpiedumplings@programming.dev
        1·
        11 days ago

        There are open source tools for analyzing if github stars are fake, and they work reliably.

        The kind of people that fake reviews/stars target are not the kind of people that are going to be verifying things.

        As long as Amazon doesn’t crack down, there isn’t really a need to game the system.

  • fireshell@kbin.earth
    9·
    13 days ago

    Imagine that someone collected and kept the bookmarks there, and now they will disappear. Another reason to remember that you do not need to store anything important remotely.

    • HiddenLayer555@lemmy.mlEnglish
      8·
      13 days ago

      This is why whenever I want to save a news article, I actually save it to my computer as a PDF. Not only can your online bookmark store be shut down, the article itself can be deleted or edited especially if it’s a hot button issue.

  • fireshell@kbin.earth
    1·
    13 days ago

    Setup Miniflux to fetch all my feeds, which I can parse through manually during the day and send over the choice pieces to Wallabag for later reading, either at lunch or at nighttime using my phone or KOReader.