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@Annie Wow, an interesting history indeed. Nice analysis. 😀

@Annie That's really cool. I've found the same thing to be true for me with my reading log.

@Annie Once I noticed websites vanish or restructure after a few years (which is almost the same) I gave up on actively bookmarking for nostalgic reasons. In principle the web is for ever and permanent, but in practice it is ephemeral. I only bookmark to read later, not to archive. The latter is a fool's errand, in my opinion.

@Miraz I like to think I've progressed as a person. Time will tell! 😅

@jabel Oh, I bet! my kindle history tells an interesting story too...

@renevanbelzen I love that things disappear, actually. I don't need that article on best new marketing apps of 2016 to stay with me in 2023. (also thank the holy goddess of career shifting that I no longer have to read articles like that.) on the other hand, even tho I primarily use bookmarking as a read-later cache, I ended up with an interesting (if incomplete) archive. Kind of cool to have that too.

@renevanbelzen when you bookmark with Micro.blog, the content is archived… the source might disappear by owner’s decision but an archive will be kept in your bookmarks! But yeah, the web is absolutely ephemeral.

@numericcitizen I thought that was a premium feature. Also, there's an authorship issue here. Is it (morally, legally) okay when an author retracts an article to keep it around in an archive? Maybe it is, but reposting someone else's retracted post verbatim certainly isn't, that's plagerism.

@renevanbelzen 🤔

@renevanbelzen it is indeed a premium feature. The way I see it, if an article gets published, anyone can take a screenshot, archive it, print it for its own use. Creating a link post refering to the source, mentionnning the author, containing a small portion of the original content, even though the article was retired by its author, is in now way plagiarism or not ok, in my book. Micro.blog archiving process doesn’t expose the archived version of the content to the general public to my knowledge. If it does, then, yes, it is a problem.

@Annie love this post... was never a big bookmarks person, but now I wish I had been:)

@mbkriegh you can start now with a very fresh microblog setup :)

@Annie a fun little journey through the past 😀

@Annie good insight…now I’m regretting I didn’t port links each time I switched services. (and am regretting so many switches…though this is a good nudge to keep with my current)