#link-rot — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #link-rot, aggregated by home.social.
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@JensB @ddbkultur Nachhaltigkeit wird gerade bei solchen Ressourcen zu selten mitgedacht. Hier könnte man – hätte man denn daran gedacht – die Inhalte weiterhin finden: https://scholia.toolforge.org/topic/Q1743328
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@JensB @ddbkultur Nachhaltigkeit wird gerade bei solchen Ressourcen zu selten mitgedacht. Hier könnte man – hätte man denn daran gedacht – die Inhalte weiterhin finden: https://scholia.toolforge.org/topic/Q1743328
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A Pew Research Center analysis shows that “a quarter of all webpages that existed at one point between 2013 and 2023 are no longer accessible, as of October 2023”. Furthermore, the research looked at Wikipedia and found that “54% of pages contain at least one link in their 'References' section that points to a page that no longer exists.”
More in the Miscellanea newsletter:
https://miscellanea.danielprindii.com/archive/digital-ghost-towns?utm_source=mastodon -
A Pew Research Center analysis shows that “a quarter of all webpages that existed at one point between 2013 and 2023 are no longer accessible, as of October 2023”. Furthermore, the research looked at Wikipedia and found that “54% of pages contain at least one link in their 'References' section that points to a page that no longer exists.”
More in the Miscellanea newsletter:
https://miscellanea.danielprindii.com/archive/digital-ghost-towns?utm_source=mastodon -
Furthermore, the research looked at Wikipedia and found that “54% of pages contain at least one link in their 'References' section that points to a page that no longer exists.”
More in the Miscellanea newsletter
https://miscellanea.danielprindii.com/archive/digital-ghost-towns?utm_source=bluesky
#internet #linkrot
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Furthermore, the research looked at Wikipedia and found that “54% of pages contain at least one link in their 'References' section that points to a page that no longer exists.”
More in the Miscellanea newsletter
https://miscellanea.danielprindii.com/archive/digital-ghost-towns?utm_source=bluesky
#internet #linkrot
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HTML quick tip:
Check links on the command line via `npx hihtml -l` (current folder) or `npx hihtml -l -i FILE_OR_FOLDER`.
That’s it 🙂 (And yes, it’s as uncomplicated as validating and minifying.)
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HTML quick tip:
Check links on the command line via `npx hihtml -l` (current folder) or `npx hihtml -l -i FILE_OR_FOLDER`.
That’s it 🙂 (And yes, it’s as uncomplicated as validating and minifying.)
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It's frustrating that new websites last no more than two years, aka when their funky (expensive?) domain name expires. I link to projects, and in two years, they're already disappearing. I see this happening more and more with the websites I link to. #linkrot
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It's frustrating that new websites last no more than two years, aka when their funky (expensive?) domain name expires. I link to projects, and in two years, they're already disappearing. I see this happening more and more with the websites I link to. #linkrot
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what is the datafied web? how to study it? and reimagine it? we chat in Internet Histories journal ✨🐰🦔🐨🐢🦉🐿️🦙🦆💬 https://jonathangray.org/2026/05/18/datafied-web
with @nthylstrup Miglė Bareikytė, Carolin Gerlitz, @sebgiessmann @annehelmond Ian Milligan & Valérie Schafer.
come for the datafied web - stay for the AI #slop #adtech #deepfakes #bots #leaks #trolls #bubbles #linkrot #fintech #osint #dataloss #softwaredecay #venturecapital #platformlabour #webarchives #diywebsites #algorithms #surveillancecapitalism #poeticcomputation & more 😋 -
what is the datafied web? how to study it? and reimagine it? we chat in Internet Histories journal ✨🐰🦔🐨🐢🦉🐿️🦙🦆💬 https://jonathangray.org/2026/05/18/datafied-web
with @nthylstrup Miglė Bareikytė, Carolin Gerlitz, @sebgiessmann @annehelmond Ian Milligan & Valérie Schafer.
come for the datafied web - stay for the AI #slop #adtech #deepfakes #bots #leaks #trolls #bubbles #linkrot #fintech #osint #dataloss #softwaredecay #venturecapital #platformlabour #webarchives #diywebsites #algorithms #surveillancecapitalism #poeticcomputation & more 😋 -
241 Newsportale blockieren bereits die Web-Crawler des Internet Archive — darunter Guardian und NYT. Ausgerechnet Medienhäuser, die von der Beweismittelkette des offenen Webs profitieren, sägen daran. Carla Siepmann @CarlaSiepmann auf @netzpolitik_feed mit einem wichtigen Text. #LinkRot #InternetArchive #Journalismus https://netzpolitik.org/2026/breakpoint-das-internet-verrottet/
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241 Newsportale blockieren bereits die Web-Crawler des Internet Archive — darunter Guardian und NYT. Ausgerechnet Medienhäuser, die von der Beweismittelkette des offenen Webs profitieren, sägen daran. Carla Siepmann @CarlaSiepmann auf @netzpolitik_feed mit einem wichtigen Text. #LinkRot #InternetArchive #Journalismus https://netzpolitik.org/2026/breakpoint-das-internet-verrottet/
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Just to keep this here, in prep for #linkrot:
> There are some patriotic citizens who sincerely hope that America will win the war - but they also hope that Russia will lose it; and there are some who hope that America will win the war, but that England will lose it; and there are some who hope that America will win the war, but that Roosevelt will lose it.
Elmer Davis
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Just to keep this here, in prep for #linkrot:
> There are some patriotic citizens who sincerely hope that America will win the war - but they also hope that Russia will lose it; and there are some who hope that America will win the war, but that England will lose it; and there are some who hope that America will win the war, but that Roosevelt will lose it.
Elmer Davis
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Just went after hundreds of URLs that didn’t work anymore (updating them to point to archive.org).
While this is routine work for every site owner, it’s astonishing to see how many peers and orgs throw away links—some of them with excellent profiles, others the result of hard work of DevRel teams.
Extra pain to see this when they didn’t own the domain (GitHub, Medium, some such).
Make a point to always set up redirects. It protects your work—and saves others some time.
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Just went after hundreds of URLs that didn’t work anymore (updating them to point to archive.org).
While this is routine work for every site owner, it’s astonishing to see how many peers and orgs throw away links—some of them with excellent profiles, others the result of hard work of DevRel teams.
Extra pain to see this when they didn’t own the domain (GitHub, Medium, some such).
Make a point to always set up redirects. It protects your work—and saves others some time.
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Been in touch with some "Archivist" working on a comprehensive archive of all the Cybersix material...
They plan to release like a BitTorrent or something to make it easy to share and prevent "Link Rot"...
Excuse me, I'm not that technical...
#CyberSix #Archival #Preservation #MediaPreservation #Comic #Cartoon #Anime #LiveAction #TV #Series #BitTorrent #LinkRot
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Been in touch with some "Archivist" working on a comprehensive archive of all the Cybersix material...
They plan to release like a BitTorrent or something to make it easy to share and prevent "Link Rot"...
Excuse me, I'm not that technical...
#CyberSix #Archival #Preservation #MediaPreservation #Comic #Cartoon #Anime #LiveAction #TV #Series #BitTorrent #LinkRot
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Link rot continues to be a real scourge on the 'net; in fact, it's worse now than it was when people starting warning about it 30 years ago.
That's why I'm proud that many pages on my main site have not changed in 20 years.
More seriously, donate to the Internet Archive, so they can preserve more of the 'net for posterity.
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Link rot continues to be a real scourge on the 'net; in fact, it's worse now than it was when people starting warning about it 30 years ago.
That's why I'm proud that many pages on my main site have not changed in 20 years.
More seriously, donate to the Internet Archive, so they can preserve more of the 'net for posterity.
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A Pew Research Center study found that 38% of webpages from a decade ago, and about 25% of pages sampled across the decade, are now inaccessible; our analysis shows that the Wayback Machine has rescued roughly 15% of those otherwise dead pages.
https://blog.archive.org/2026/04/23/gone-but-not-forgotten-recovering-the-dead-web/
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Gone but Not Forgotten: Recovering the Dead Web
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Gone but Not Forgotten: Recovering the Dead Web
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The link rot phenomenon that leads to the Internet forgetting things… when it wants
https://ft.pressreader.com/v99e/20260407/281788520616064
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Le phénomène de pourriture des liens qui entraine l’oubli de l’Internet… quand il le souhaitehttps://moncarnet.com/2026/04/07/internet-cette-memoire-fragile-qui-choisit-deja-ce-quelle-efface/
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The link rot phenomenon that leads to the Internet forgetting things… when it wants
https://ft.pressreader.com/v99e/20260407/281788520616064
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Le phénomène de pourriture des liens qui entraine l’oubli de l’Internet… quand il le souhaitehttps://moncarnet.com/2026/04/07/internet-cette-memoire-fragile-qui-choisit-deja-ce-quelle-efface/
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@gunstick @tageblatt mjo dat weist och erëm, datt een sech selwer muss Archiver zouleeën. #linkrot #memoryHole
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@gunstick @tageblatt mjo dat weist och erëm, datt een sech selwer muss Archiver zouleeën. #linkrot #memoryHole
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Releasing .htaccess Punk—a Quick Helper to Check Redirects in .htaccess Files, by @j9t [@frontenddogma]:
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Releasing .htaccess Punk—a Quick Helper to Check Redirects in .htaccess Files, by @j9t [@frontenddogma]:
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Chi dice cambiamento di url, dice link rotti!
Il sito del Patrimonio dell'Emilia-Romagna oggi è inaccessibile nei Collegamenti esterni automatici su Wikipedia (derivati da #Wikidata).
Bel modo per festeggiare le Giornate FAI di primavera. 😬
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Chi dice cambiamento di url, dice link rotti!
Il sito del Patrimonio dell'Emilia-Romagna oggi è inaccessibile nei Collegamenti esterni automatici su Wikipedia (derivati da #Wikidata).
Bel modo per festeggiare le Giornate FAI di primavera. 😬
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Machines can only remember what remains.
The popular story about the internet is that it remembers everything.
My experience has been the opposite.Websites disappear. Forums vanish. Domains expire. Entire conversations fade away.
What remains becomes the record.
https://realityfragments.com/2026/03/10/machines-can-only-remember-what-remains/
#ArtificialIntelligence #InternetHistory #DigitalMemory #LinkRot #Technology
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Machines can only remember what remains.
The popular story about the internet is that it remembers everything.
My experience has been the opposite.Websites disappear. Forums vanish. Domains expire. Entire conversations fade away.
What remains becomes the record.
https://realityfragments.com/2026/03/10/machines-can-only-remember-what-remains/
#ArtificialIntelligence #InternetHistory #DigitalMemory #LinkRot #Technology
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#Deprecation of #ArchiveToday on en #Wikipedia - RfC closed: immediate deprecation [1].
#Archiving #LinkRot #Archive_Today
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/Archive.is_RFC_5
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#Deprecation of #ArchiveToday on en #Wikipedia - RfC closed: immediate deprecation [1].
#Archiving #LinkRot #Archive_Today
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/Archive.is_RFC_5
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Bezeichnend, traurig oder einfach nur lustig, dass die schemaLocation des epicur-Metadatenformats (http://www.persistent-identifier.de/xepicur/version1.0/xepicur.xsd) zur Verwaltung persistenter Referenzierung (URN) jetzt ausgerechnet zu einem Online-Casino führt?
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Bezeichnend, traurig oder einfach nur lustig, dass die schemaLocation des epicur-Metadatenformats (http://www.persistent-identifier.de/xepicur/version1.0/xepicur.xsd) zur Verwaltung persistenter Referenzierung (URN) jetzt ausgerechnet zu einem Online-Casino führt?
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We've teamed up with Automattic to fight link rot on the open web. Check out the new Internet Archive Wayback Machine Link Fixer for WordPress. The free plugin preserves pages, redirects broken links to archived versions, and helps ensure the web keeps its memory.
“It’s very important that websites have a memory," said Alexander Rose of Automattic. "When links go dead, in effect, the truth goes dead—especially in the age of AI,”
Learn more ➡️ https://blog.archive.org/2026/02/04/inside-the-new-wayback-machine-plugin-for-wordpress/
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We've teamed up with Automattic to fight link rot on the open web. Check out the new Internet Archive Wayback Machine Link Fixer for WordPress. The free plugin preserves pages, redirects broken links to archived versions, and helps ensure the web keeps its memory.
“It’s very important that websites have a memory," said Alexander Rose of Automattic. "When links go dead, in effect, the truth goes dead—especially in the age of AI,”
Learn more ➡️ https://blog.archive.org/2026/02/04/inside-the-new-wayback-machine-plugin-for-wordpress/
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#Development #Approaches
Snapshot testing to keep URLs cool · An automated way to prevent broken links https://ilo.im/16a4ml_____
#Testing #Automation #URLs #LinkRot #Websites #Blogs #HTTP #Git #WebDev #Backend -
#Development #Approaches
Snapshot testing to keep URLs cool · An automated way to prevent broken links https://ilo.im/16a4ml_____
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Did you know that nearly 40% of web pages that existed in 2013 are already gone? Link rot is real, and the "cloud" is just someone else's computer that might be turned off tomorrow.
This is why self-hosting and local backups aren't just a hobby anymore - they're digital archeology. If you love a piece of information, save it. Don't assume the internet will remember it for you. That's why I'm building my NAS right now.
#SelfHosted #DigitalPreservation #Privacy #NAS #LinkRot #Tech #Internet
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Did you know that nearly 40% of web pages that existed in 2013 are already gone? Link rot is real, and the "cloud" is just someone else's computer that might be turned off tomorrow.
This is why self-hosting and local backups aren't just a hobby anymore - they're digital archeology. If you love a piece of information, save it. Don't assume the internet will remember it for you. That's why I'm building my NAS right now.
#SelfHosted #DigitalPreservation #Privacy #NAS #LinkRot #Tech #Internet
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This story is the first in the Atavist's new Revived series, which aims to breathe life into old stories: https://magazine.atavist.com/introducing-revived?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
#Longreads #Journalism #Nonfiction #Writing #Internet #WaybackMachine #LinkRot
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This story is the first in the Atavist's new Revived series, which aims to breathe life into old stories: https://magazine.atavist.com/introducing-revived?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
#Longreads #Journalism #Nonfiction #Writing #Internet #WaybackMachine #LinkRot
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Das Bild des Verrottens ist irgendwie ganz treffend.
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Das Bild des Verrottens ist irgendwie ganz treffend.
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Just stumbled over this useful chart on the #SPARQL Query Execution Sequence by @dbeckett . The slides of his talk on SPARQL 1.1 from 2011 are still perfectly accessible online (https://www.dajobe.org/talks/201105-sparql-11/). Many of the external resources, however, have been moved (but can still be found just by googling) #linkrot
Thanks to the open and transparent license, the infographic could be stored on #wikicommons as well (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SPARQL_1.1_Query_Execution_Sequence.png)
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@stadtwirtschaft @Mareike2405 To be fair haben sie eine Email an alle angemeldeten Nutzer_innen geschrieben, in der sie zum Export aller Daten bis zum 15. Dezember 2025 “einladen” (sic).
Grund für diese Entscheidung ist, dass das #KleioLab als GmbH geführt wurde (war mir nicht klar) und zum Jahresende schließt.
