#digitalimpermanence — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #digitalimpermanence, aggregated by home.social.
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Michigan Daily: Your digital footprint is worth looking back on. “Think of the last time you had a Snapchat memory flashback pop up as a notification or scrolled through your Instagram archived posts. Usually, there’s an instant flash of embarrassment that often makes us treat our past selves like something to hide or erase indefinitely. There’s a modern impulse to scrub our digital […]
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New York Times: After 31 Years, a Quirky Gay Gossip Website Shuts Down. This link goes to a gift article. “At around 5 p.m. on July 30, one day ahead of schedule, the DataLounge, a long-running online forum that became a gathering spot for (mostly) gay men, went dark. Just like that, tens of millions of posts spanning more than three decades simply disappeared.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/08/17/new-york-times-after-31-years-a-quirky-gay-gossip-website-shuts-down/ -
The Atlantic: Hegseth, Rubio, and Caine Had an Auto-Deleting Signal Chat. This link goes to a gift article. “The new release, which we reviewed, includes 13 Signal chats from the first six months of 2025 that have not been previously reported. The new records are screenshots of Signal groups that mostly lack context about when they were formed and what was discussed. The identities of nearly […]
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Daily Nous: Kant Studies Online: No Longer Online. “What happens to the articles published in an online-only journal when that journal not only ceases to publish, but ceases to exist? That question is raised by the case of Kant Studies Online, an online only, open-access philosophy journal that published articles between 2011 and 2016, the website of which is no longer accessible. The journal […]
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Internet Archive Blog: Follow the Changes: 9 Ways Web Archives are Used in Digital Investigations. “In this piece we draw on the Internet Archive’s News Stories collection to surface practices and use cultures of the Wayback Machine amongst journalists and media organisations. We analysed a dataset of about 8,600 news articles, assembled by the IA via daily Google News keyword searches since […]
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Kotaku: Beloved 27-Year-Old Gaming Site Wipes Forums, Relaunches As A Gambling Affiliate Cash-Grab. “The site, primarily run by volunteers and enthusiasts, has fought for the much-maligned adventure gaming genre through thick and thin for almost three decades, but visit today and you’ll find more ‘reviews’ of gambling sites and slot machine games than the latest adventure releases. And for […]