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Posted by mstef 4/14/2025

Omnom: Self-hosted bookmarking with searchable, wysiwyg snapshots(omnom.zone)
a bit of background. this is a rewrite of omnom by asciimoo - the guy who also made searx. originally i wrote omnom, back in the days when del.icio.us was enshittified and gone down the drain. instead of complaining i was taking the opportunity to write a replacement that i would want, it became omnom, and for many years me and a bunch of users were very happy with it.

but the fast moving world of browser extensions made maintenance (for a non-commercial free software side project) too expensive, so the extension support became erratic, until it died completely. for a year or two i didn't use it.

but then asked asciimo if he could have a look a the extensions (since he was recently working on another extension, so had some experience), he looked at it, and rewrote the whole thing in go and fixed the extension. he even got support from nlnet/ngi0.

if you want to have your own self-hosted libre software bookmarking service for you and your community, give it a go, it's very simple, privacy respecting and most robust when it comes to snapshotting. asciimoo did a great job.

214 points | 59 commentspage 3
ravishing0223 4/15/2025|
Awesome. A few months ago I posted my bookmarking site. Now I see that my site is almost a subset of yours.

If you want to take a look check this: https://cloudmark.site

mstef 4/14/2025||
btw if you want to have a look at more than a decade of snapshots, try https://links.ctrlc.hu/ my private and membership invitation-only instance.
plasticsoprano 4/14/2025||
I've been using linkwarden the last few months and loving it.

https://github.com/linkwarden/linkwarden

hrisen 4/15/2025||
When I saw the name, I immediately thought of https://omnomchocolate.com/
andersha 4/14/2025||
I am happy user of https://historio.us/
spookybones 4/14/2025|
Does this kind of service really need a subscription? Immediate turn off.
andersha 4/15/2025||
I am getting used to paying for the services I need. To me at least it makes sense to be paying for something being maintained.
vindex10 4/14/2025||
I have a thought on "sharing" the snapshots. Many pages nowadays are behind a paywall.

Typically you are required to log in (pay or not) to remove them. I'm aware of archive.org and others, but it is not the main point :)

The point is, that if you are logged in, some private information about yourself may be stored in the snapshot. It is less dangerous when it is something on the screen -> you can make a decision. But if is is some hidden field with your ip address for example.

oulipo 4/15/2025|
Very nice! but why not contributing updates to some widely used project like Karakeep?