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.
Gosh darn it I only just onboarded to Omnivore a few months ago Now I guess I need to find a new place to store bookmarks
Same. I’m fucking furious. I specifically chose it over something like Readwise in order to stay open source. Ugh.
You’re telling me THIS is where I’m finding this out??? Gah fckin damnit, time to find a new one… Any recommendations?
Simple apps version 2 , which app is next ?
Honestly this is such a shame, it was a really good app
So fork the latest enshittifree release, setup your own web app, pretend nothing has changed?
If you’re into self-hosting there’s Wallabag, but it’s not half as slick as Omnivore.
Shiori is also good.
Omnivore is not easy to self-host and now I understand why.
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.
Why would a AI voice company buy a read-it-later service???
So are they somehow able to relicense by buying off the contributors? Or does Eleven Labs intend to host/use something under AGPLv3? Just trying to figure out what their plan is and how they’re dealing with it being open source
Everything that exists as it is now will remain open source. More than bought the developers seem to have been hired by eleven labs and most likely have been working there for a while, so they are actually taking their know how and experience there more than taking the code itself.
That’s how it looks like to me.
Another possibility is that the eleven labs reading app has portions licensed as agpl, the ones taken from omnivore.
Thanks, yeah looks like they are wanting to build on their own reader app.
There’s also readwise reader which is better in most ways. Not open source - but also not pretending to be either
Also not exactly cheap!
No, very true
