Ars Technica: The Internet is not forever after all: CNET deletes old articles to game Google https://arstechnica.com/?p=1960032 #Tech #arstechnica #IT #Technology #InternetArchive #internethistory #retrotech #archvies #linkrot #Biz&IT #google #Tech #CNET #SEO

@chowderman @amayer @buermoy plz don't use #LinkShorteners as they are susceptible to #LinkRot.

The lack of #Resolve by #NATO members #UK & #USA to follow their obligations as per #BudapestMemorandum are seen as a sign of #weakness.

For the UK this was evident with the lack of reaction regarding the #PRC's violation of the Joint #SinoBritishDeclaration in #Hongkong.

Thus the #MilitaryAid is a sorry excuse for the lack of #BootsOnTheGround that would be expectable as per treaty.

@feditips also #LinkShorteners are extremely susceptible to #LinkRot and are easy to abuse for #malware, #scams and other bad actions!

Anybody remember when it was a good idea to publish paper books of URLs followed by a paragraph describing the content? Sort of like book reviews, but for web sites.

I came across one of those today in the museum Library where I do volunteer work. It came out around 20 years ago. Some time when I have nothing to do I might see whether ANY of the links still go anywhere other than a 404 page.

#linkrot

Ars Technica: The link rot spreads: GIF-hosting site Gfycat shutting down Sept. 1 https://arstechnica.com/?p=1951516 #Tech #arstechnica #IT #Technology #imagehosting #snapchat #linkrot #gfycat #Tech #gifs #meta #snap

downloading 400+ videos from Youtube for preservation purposes
just in case Youtube really bans me for using #AdBlock or even worse, borrows Twitter's #ratelimit trick.

#DataHoarding #ytdlp #linkrot

We *need* a DNS equivalent of word-of-mouth.

#linkRot #corporateLinkMurder #ContentDistribution #DNS #ContentDiscovery

@wienerzeitung OMG. These nincompoops have killed all links to their #archive by moving to a different domain. The old domain leads to yet another #domain.

Why do that to the internet? This was the second oldest #news site in #Austria.

#linkrot

@n8
> Another LinkRot pattern that I've observed quite frequently in research is material hosted on university "personal page hierarchies". If I see a link in a paper

Referencing any web link in a draft paper that isn't relatively permanent (eg DOI, web.archive.org, webcitation.org, archive.is) ought to be brought up as an issue during peer review.

#LinkRot #PeerReview #AcademicPublishing

Bravo to _Digital Humanities Quarterly_ for studying #linkrot in its own articles. It would be tempting and easy just to study it elsewhere.
https://digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/17/1/000662/000662.html

#DH #DigitalHumanities #Journals #ScholComm

@chartgerink This feels straight out of The Onion #NotTheOnion

Not #LinkRot per se. It's not getting an HTTP 404 when you expect a 200; rather, it's getting a 200 but then realizing it should be a 403. #PaywallRot ?

@ResearchEquals

@eevee yeah - and the fact that both #discord and #twitter are #SingleVendor / #SingleProvide services make said content as vulnerable to #LinkRot as if they were just #tumblr posts...

Ars Technica: Hosting site Imgur will remove explicit and anonymous content next month https://arstechnica.com/?p=1933232 #Tech #arstechnica #IT #Technology #imagehosting #onlyfans #linkrot #reddit #Tumblr #imgur #Tech

#LinkRot for #podcasts is worse than I thought. The decay seems especially noteworthy for those that use services to obfuscate links to their files.

If people don't want their podcasts to disappear they need to be proactive. One way is to archive your stuff at @internetarchive.

Podcast feeds should include links to backup files but I haven't found a standard element to represent those, either with podcast specific feeds or #RSS in general.

The content that generated my latest encounter with #linkrot was a link to John Norris's hipster PDA resources. I'm delighted to say the site does still exist, and it's a delight: https://john-norris.net/

#Linkrot. I feel I need to dig into some internet archaeology on the impact of linkrot on the integrity of the web. There's that feeling of disappointment, clicking a link to not even a 404 but a 'hmm, we're having trouble finding that site'. That cool idea you wanted to engage with has vanished into the ether. Your only hope is that it made it into the internet archive, or someone else blogged about it in response. But the integrity of the originating page is somehow tainted, too.

Are any people or bots scoring #publishers by their success in resisting #linkrot? Such a system could score publishers based on the average half-life of their links. It could have separate categories for links to their own publications and links within their publications to outside sources.

2) DOAB link checking. We're working with the OAPEN team to build a link checking facility for https://doabooks.com This is still in the early stages, but it builds on code written for @unglueit , so it's coming together nicely! Too often in the Open Access world, maintenance chores fall into the cracks. You can have 99% of your links working but when you have 100,000 things to keep track of, that's still 1000 works that we've lost. #openaccess #ebooks #linkrot

@lps
Also #invidious for Youtube, #teddit for Reddit, and there are many more.

One very awesome thing is #farside
https://farside.link/

It redirects between multiple instances, and it supports various types of them.

So for example, opening this link will #RickRoll you through a different Invidious instance each time:
https://farside.link/invidious/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

This is very good way of combating #LinkRot

Also #LibRedirect is awesome browser addon.
https://libredirect.github.io/

As far as the #Fediverse 's usage of #WebFinger is concerned —

Fediverse software (including Mastodon, Pixelfed, Calckey, Pleroma, Lemmy, etc) don't seem to use the #JRD “property” element.

But if any of them ever do — since the "type" is supposed to be a URI — I think it would be better to use something like a #tagURI or something like it (rather than an HTTP(S)-URI).

Else it may suffer from #linkRot (just ostatus·org).