#digitalimpermanence — Public Fediverse posts

Spotted on Bluesky: the BET.com Article Explorer. From the About page: “In September 2026, BET removed its news archive from bet.com — more than two decades of reporting on Black culture, politics, music and public life, gone from the live web. The articles themselves survived, because the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine had been capturing them all along. This site makes those captures […]

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 […]

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 […]