In @KelsonV's blog post about link trails he originally posted back in 2018, he describes the process of opening a bunch of articles from his social feeds to read later, and then having a hard time recalling of finding the original post that linked to it so he could give credit.

It's indeed not uncommon for me either, and now I was wondering how effective a browser extension would be that would track the source and context of links you click on, and perhaps extract OP, booster/reposter, datetime and visibility of social media sites whose structure it recognises.

Of course this would also be a privacy hell ripe for abuse if not handled properly... So I think I'll skip on this #PetProject for now; it's not like I need more personal projects anyway. ;)

And in the end it's more about getting important information out there anyway, and less about who said it first, isn't it?

Relevant gemini link: gemini://hyperborea.org/log/2018-02-08-link-trails.gmi

#linkTrails #SocialMedia #meta #metaData