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OSS Read-it-Later service Omnivore sells out to AI startup ElevenLabs (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I've been a big fan of the slick interface of Omnivore. It could process web sites, email newsletters and RSS feeds.

The users have just been informed that Omnivore has "joined" the AI startup Eleven Labs. It may be bitter how OSS projects are being sucked up by AI, but that alone sounds innocuous enough.

What is upsetting is that the users have only until the 15.11 to export their data, after which the service will be deactivated. The export format is only usable with Eleven Labs, and exports for Pocket, Instapaper, etc are not offered, which I find just insulting.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

So fork the latest enshittifree release, setup your own web app, pretend nothing has changed?

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Omnivore is not easy to self-host and now I understand why.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah... This was probably intentional. Now we get why ! They didn't put to much effort for the self-hosted version, because they didn't want you to self-host.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Ah, great work cornering the market. Let the "AI"s have it then.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

If you're into self-hosting there's Wallabag, but it's not half as slick as Omnivore.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago

I second Wallabag — IMO "slick" is a nice-to-have, not a must-have when weighing software choices against each other.

At least Wallabag has a long and robust track record of not selling users out to bullshit tech corpos. That counts for more in my book than shiny surfaces.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

Shiori is also good.