Anyone who proposes a perfectly #permanent #internet doesn't understand that the #lossy nature of it isn't a bug but a feature. Not everything on the internet deserves or needs to be kept forever (imagine if hate content wouldn't naturally be lost once those spreading it stopped producing new hate).

Yes it is sad that #deadlinks are a growing problem, but the answer isn't to cast the internet in amber but to create structures that keep good and important content around while losing the rest.

« If you look at the history of social platforms, you see that they're not often replaced by platforms that look or function a lot like what came before: Facebook, for example, is very different from Myspace, which is different from TikTok. The next big social network will look different from all of those. »

#federation #decentrazation #deadlinks #photobucket #scifiwriting

« If you look at the history of social platforms, you see that they're not often replaced by platforms that look or function a lot like what came before: Facebook, for example, is very different from Myspace, which is different from TikTok. The next big social network will look different from all of those. »

#federation #decentrazation #deadlinks #photobucket #scifiwriting

« Undoubtably, SF/F authors / fans / professionals will settle in a new place, and will have to adjust and change accordingly to fit within that new set of rules. Already, there's lots of possibilities: Mastodon, Tribel, etc. »

#federation #decentrazation #deadlinks #photobucket #scifiwriting

« Undoubtably, SF/F authors / fans / professionals will settle in a new place, and will have to adjust and change accordingly to fit within that new set of rules. Already, there's lots of possibilities: Mastodon, Tribel, etc. »

#federation #decentrazation #deadlinks #photobucket #scifiwriting

« This isn't a new phenomenon! The history of the internet is littered with abandoned social networks that failed to adapt with the times and were quickly overtaken by others. »

#federation #decentrazation #deadlinks #photobucket #scifiwriting

« This isn't a new phenomenon! The history of the internet is littered with abandoned social networks that failed to adapt with the times and were quickly overtaken by others. »

#federation #decentrazation #deadlinks #photobucket #scifiwriting

“Photobucket hurt very badly,” Andrews explained. “They finally got that corrected, but by the end, so many people had gone and deleted their account anyway. That stuff is lost forever.”

#federation #decentrazation #deadlinks #photobucket #scifiwriting

“Photobucket hurt very badly,” Andrews explained. “They finally got that corrected, but by the end, so many people had gone and deleted their account anyway. That stuff is lost forever.”

#federation #decentrazation #deadlinks #photobucket #scifiwriting

« Once-useful build threads and tutorials were now filled with pages of the warning image, rendering them largely ineffective. »

#federation #decentralization #photobucket #deadlinks #scifiwriting

« Once-useful build threads and tutorials were now filled with pages of the warning image, rendering them largely ineffective. »

#federation #decentralization #photobucket #deadlinks #scifiwriting

« The result was disastrous, particularly for costumers, who had for years used Photobucket as a place to store all of the images they’d taken of costumes and props they were building. For users who didn’t pay, each hotlinked image was replaced by a gray box »

#federation #decentralization #photobucket #deadlinks #scifiwriting
https://transfer-orbit.ghost.io/fragile-infrastructure-science-fiction-fandom-community-social-media/?utm_source=pocket_mylist

« The result was disastrous, particularly for costumers, who had for years used Photobucket as a place to store all of the images they’d taken of costumes and props they were building. For users who didn’t pay, each hotlinked image was replaced by a gray box »

#federation #decentralization #photobucket #deadlinks #scifiwriting
https://transfer-orbit.ghost.io/fragile-infrastructure-science-fiction-fandom-community-social-media/?utm_source=pocket_mylist

afraid.org is great for free sub-domains, but sometimes they suddenly vanish.

Had to change my photo website from k1.n8photos.com to k1.pics.mu

#deadlinks