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Self-hosting a Pocket alternative using Readeck, Linkwarden, and Docker Swarm. (programming.dev)

submitted 1 month ago by clifmo@programming.dev to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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After getting burned by Pocket, I moved everything into a self-hosted setup.

Current stack:

FreshRSS for feed ingestion
Readeck for actual reading
Linkwarden for long-term storage

Running on Docker Swarm behind Traefik, internal-only. Remote access via WireGuard.

A few gotchas that took longer than expected:

Readeck container entrypoint pointing at /readeck (dir) instead of /bin/readeck
Linkwarden auth issues due to build-time NEXT_PUBLIC_* vars
Had to seed the first user manually in Postgres with bcrypt
Internal SMTP relay quirks between services

It’s definitely more work than SaaS, but the upside is ownership.

Full write-up with configs + fixes: https://clifmo.com/blog/posts/saas-is-temporary-your-reading-list-doesnt-have-to-be

Curious what others are using for this now. I considered Wallabag but opted for Readeck, even tho the Readeck Android app has a crash loop right now (for me).

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[–] tuckerm@feddit.online 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Thanks for writing that up! I'm curious: what makes you use Readeck for some things and Linkwarden for others? It seems like they have the same use case, and pretty much the same features.

I've been using wallabag for quite a while, before Linkwarden and Readeck were written, and I haven't felt a reason to switch away from it.

A thing I like doing with wallabag is:

Select a bunch of articles that I want to read on my ebook reader
Tag them as "exported_on_2026-04-02"
Export them as an epub
The epub is synced automatically by syncthing to my ebook reader (it's like an eink Android tablet)
Once I've read that file on the ebook reader, select all entries tagged with "exported_on_2026-04-02" and mark them as read. Or just mark them as read right away, since I'll definitely get to them once they're on the ebook reader.

I haven't found any other bookmarking applications that can conveniently tag articles in bulk, export, and then mark as read in bulk like wallabag. From the website, it looks like Readeck can, I'll have to check it out.