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Download literally everything you enjoy, it will be deleted otherwise<br>@salty@zwiebel.social

Sadly very, very true. I usually have a long list of things I encounter on the web that I want to read later.<br>My feeling is that a lot of people have great ideas that might not fit in 140 characters. Yeah, I know it’s 280 by now… and if you pay money… 25k characters… at some point you get a blog. Mainly also because I don’t like long microblog threads. You are starting to see my point right?<br>Most of the platforms people could air their ideas are so locked down by now and require a login. This leads to the situation that we can’t reach people outside this bubble anymore. A lot of people don’t care about this fact, walled gardens are nice until you get punished by linking outside this platform. This is also where the "link in first comment" comes from because your post ranks less well if you have a link in your post that leads the reader outside the platform.<br>Sometimes people have something to share and start a blog and publish their text there (sometimes the article even gets a lot of traction). And then the interesting thing happens. After a short while – Stuff just disappears (also known as Linkrot).<br>Sure, there’s nothing wrong with that, but only two months later, for an article that was very hyped, it’s just gone. That feels wrong.<br>“If you put something online, it’s there forever.” Year after year that maxim continues to be proven false.<br>From Vanishing Culture

For links, I use Linkding which takes a snapshot of the page when I save it to my bookmarks (and even share it if I’d need to), so I don’t have to fully rely on archive.org or archive.is to recover articles and blogs that might vanish without a trace. This issue also applies to link shorteners (bit.ly and the likes). If you don’t own the URL and the Shortener you are as exposed to losing links. This nearly happened when Google threatened to turn off their short URLs last year. Bob Frankston has some thoughts on this if you want to dig deeper.<br>While writing this Sony reminds us we don’t own what we buy… we merely rent things even if it feels like buying.<br>And if you have a blog, podcast whatever – think about preserving your content. Think a bit more in the long-run than a few months. I’ve not formulated a consistent strategy yet, apart from Publish (on your) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere (POSSE), but will most likely start working on that. Your thoughts should stay online for a bit, or be saved somewhere at least. I’ve seen brilliant articles in git repositories or gists and markdown files are easy to store and distribute.

July 20, 2026<br>internet, linkrot, preservation

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