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Marsden<p>"... in the short term, it seems absurd that Google preserves snippets of what used to be on a website and sell advertising on the search results, even though the ability to read and see it for yourself is gone. That’s bad for journalists right now – but when social media is the only place to look for information and the links have disappeared, it’ll be bad for everyone else too. "</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/internet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>internet</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/linkrot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>linkrot</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://thespinoff.co.nz/internet/16-04-2025/the-rise-of-linkrot-what-happens-when-the-internet-starts-to-disappear" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">thespinoff.co.nz/internet/16-0</span><span class="invisible">4-2025/the-rise-of-linkrot-what-happens-when-the-internet-starts-to-disappear</span></a></p>
Tim Klapdor<p>I am so over Medium. I hate the paywall lockdown of articles. Just not going to bother with it anymore. Regardless of what it was trying to do, it's ended up as walled garden who's probably sold your content to AI companies. Add it to the pile of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LinkRot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LinkRot</span></a></p>
Bodling<p>"Six weeks into the new administration, Wayback Machine director Graham said, the Internet Archive had cataloged some 73,000 web pages that had existed on U.S. government websites that were expunged after Trump's inauguration."</p><p>Support these people!</p><p>www.npr.org/2025/03/23/nx-s1-5326573/internet-archive-wayback</p><p><a href="https://deacon.social/tags/InternetArchive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>InternetArchive</span></a> <a href="https://deacon.social/tags/BrewsterKahle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BrewsterKahle</span></a> <a href="https://deacon.social/tags/WaybackMachine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WaybackMachine</span></a> <a href="https://deacon.social/tags/MarkGraham" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MarkGraham</span></a> <a href="https://deacon.social/tags/Archives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Archives</span></a> <a href="https://deacon.social/tags/Libraries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Libraries</span></a> <a href="https://deacon.social/tags/DigitalHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DigitalHistory</span></a> <a href="https://deacon.social/tags/LinkRot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LinkRot</span></a></p>
ResearchBuzz: Firehose<p>Poynter: As websites disappear, link rot threatens journalism. One Stanford fellow is working on a fix. “[Brandon] Tauszik discovered one of his projects, Syria Street, had disappeared due to link rot — the gradual decay of URLs and websites as they become broken, inaccessible or deleted over time. As a journalism fellow with the The Starling Lab for Data Integrity at Stanford, Tauszik has […]</p><p><a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/08/poynter-as-websites-disappear-link-rot-threatens-journalism-one-stanford-fellow-is-working-on-a-fix/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/08/poynter-as-websites-disappear-link-rot-threatens-journalism-one-stanford-fellow-is-working-on-a-fix/</a></p>
Martín<p><a href="https://rebel.ar/tags/archivebox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>archivebox</span></a> <a href="https://rebel.ar/tags/web" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>web</span></a> <a href="https://rebel.ar/tags/archivo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>archivo</span></a> <a href="https://rebel.ar/tags/archivado" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>archivado</span></a> <a href="https://rebel.ar/tags/linkrot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>linkrot</span></a></p>
Martín<p>Fantástico. Muy simple y muy completo.<br>Le fui cargando grupos de links según las tags con los que los quería agrupar, y los fue agregando a la cola.</p><p>A medida que los va procesando, intenta guardarlos de estas maneras:</p><p>- Single file HTML<br>- PDF<br>- Screenshot<br>- DOM<br>- wget<br>- warc<br>- Readability<br>- Mercury<br>- Media (extrae videos y otros archivos multimedia)</p><p>Recién empiezo a usarlo, pero realmente estoy muy impresionado.</p><p><a href="https://rebel.ar/tags/web" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>web</span></a> <a href="https://rebel.ar/tags/archivo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>archivo</span></a> <a href="https://rebel.ar/tags/archivado" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>archivado</span></a> <a href="https://rebel.ar/tags/linkrot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>linkrot</span></a></p>
Martín<p>Cuenta con varias formas de correrlo, y también con extensiones para el navegador. Usa herramientas como yt-dl para descargar los videos que pudiera haber empotrados, y otras cosas más, es muy completo.</p><p>Lo estoy levantando en mi propia máquina. Había pensado correrlo en mi servidor hogareño, pero la verdad que me resulta más fácil levantarlo y bajarlo on demand cuando lo necesito, y sincronizar la carpeta de datos con Syncthing a modo de respaldo.</p><p>(sigue)</p><p><a href="https://rebel.ar/tags/web" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>web</span></a> <a href="https://rebel.ar/tags/archivo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>archivo</span></a> <a href="https://rebel.ar/tags/archivado" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>archivado</span></a> <a href="https://rebel.ar/tags/linkrot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>linkrot</span></a></p>
Martín<p>Estoy a punto de probar ArchiveBox, un proyecto que ya conocía pero que no había probado, y que viéndolo bien, parece ser algo completo pero minimalista, pensado para perdurar, justo lo que buscaba. </p><p>Adicionalmente, es un proyecto que en el ambiente está muy bien considerado, y cuenta con una muy buena cantidad de colaboradorxs, así que eso también me da tranquilidad.</p><p><a href="https://archivebox.io/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">archivebox.io/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>(sigue)</p><p><a href="https://rebel.ar/tags/web" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>web</span></a> <a href="https://rebel.ar/tags/archivo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>archivo</span></a> <a href="https://rebel.ar/tags/archivado" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>archivado</span></a> <a href="https://rebel.ar/tags/linkrot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>linkrot</span></a></p>
Martín<p>Pero eso no es todo, un par de actualizaciones después, en vez de arreglarse, me encuentro con estas "features"</p><p>Claramente el foco lo tienen puesto en otra parte. Todo bien, a lo mejor es una funcionalidad útil si uno se la pasa archivando media web todos los días, supongo, pero no es lo que yo necesito.</p><p>(sigue)</p><p><a href="https://rebel.ar/tags/web" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>web</span></a> <a href="https://rebel.ar/tags/archivo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>archivo</span></a> <a href="https://rebel.ar/tags/archivado" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>archivado</span></a> <a href="https://rebel.ar/tags/linkrot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>linkrot</span></a></p>
Martín<p>Desde un principio tuve mis reservas con Linkwarden, me parecía una solución demasiado compleja. Buscaba algo pensado para durar decadas, que no necesite actualizaciones constantes, algo más conservador y menos preocupado por tener linda estética y animaciones cuando cargan las cosas.</p><p>Y efectivamente, a los pocos meses de usarlo salió una actualización que no me hizo perder los links que tenía guardados, pero los dejó inaccesibles desde la UI.</p><p>(sigue)</p><p><a href="https://rebel.ar/tags/web" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>web</span></a> <a href="https://rebel.ar/tags/archivo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>archivo</span></a> <a href="https://rebel.ar/tags/archivado" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>archivado</span></a> <a href="https://rebel.ar/tags/linkrot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>linkrot</span></a></p>
Martín<p>Tengo una preocupación permanente por el "link rot", el contenido en Internet se va olvidando, corrompiendo, perdiendo, y una vez que uno vivió lo suficiente como para verlo ocurrir muchas veces, se vuelve más tangible.</p><p>Estuve usando una solución de archivado llamada Linkwarden, que tiene una interfaz web para poner las URLs a respaldar, y automáticamente guarda copias locales en HTML, PDF, captura de pantalla y también envía a archive.org</p><p>(sigue)</p><p><a href="https://rebel.ar/tags/web" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>web</span></a> <a href="https://rebel.ar/tags/archivo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>archivo</span></a> <a href="https://rebel.ar/tags/archivado" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>archivado</span></a> <a href="https://rebel.ar/tags/linkrot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>linkrot</span></a></p>
Alexander Winkler<p>Weiß jemand, wie man id_main und id_bestand auf aktuelle Archivalien im <a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/bundesarchiv" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bundesarchiv</span></a> mappt? Auf <a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/Wikipedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Wikipedia</span></a> gibt es einige tote Links, die diesem Schema folgen:</p><p><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Spezial:Weblinksuche&amp;limit=500&amp;offset=0&amp;target=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bundesarchiv.de%2Fbestaende_findmittel%2Fbestaendeuebersicht%2Fbody.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?t</span><span class="invisible">itle=Spezial:Weblinksuche&amp;limit=500&amp;offset=0&amp;target=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bundesarchiv.de%2Fbestaende_findmittel%2Fbestaendeuebersicht%2Fbody.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/archiv" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>archiv</span></a> <a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/linkrot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>linkrot</span></a></p>
Alexander Winkler<p>si potrà mai quantificare quanti santi sono stati tirati giù a causa dell'introduzione della domain "cultura.gov.it"?</p><p>Ho l'impressione che non funzionano più indirizzi mail, link ecc. quasi nella metà dei casi 🤯</p><p><a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/linkrot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>linkrot</span></a></p>
Andy Jackson<p>Goodnight <a href="https://pcdm.org/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">pcdm.org/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a>. We will (probably) remember you. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20250122181358/https://pcdm.org/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">web.archive.org/web/2025012218</span><span class="invisible">1358/https://pcdm.org/</span></a> <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/LinkRot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LinkRot</span></a> <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/DigiPres" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DigiPres</span></a></p>
dorotaC<p>I've been browsing <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/webcomics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>webcomics</span></a> again recently.</p><p>They usually include author's commentary, links to inspirations and collaborators, even Wikipedia pictures.</p><p>It's astonishing how many links from 2002-2008 have rotten. Even a Wikiedia pic of a Japanese emperor ("Not PD picture").</p><p>Sites which are still up are often stripped down to the basics, the forum and community gone.</p><p>I'm beginning to think: if you care about the content, don't just link to it. Copy and host it.</p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/linkrot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>linkrot</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/web" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>web</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/internet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>internet</span></a></p>
Egon Willighagen<p>I have an open (educational) resource around the <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@cdk" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>cdk</span></a></span> and one GitHub action checks the links. Since I cite literature where that makes sense, a good number of HTTP links are to scientific literature.</p><p>Those DOI links fail with the error in the screenshot. Link rot is a thing, but when (expensive) publishers disallow me to check, they signal they don't care about link rot.</p><p><a href="https://social.edu.nl/tags/publishing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>publishing</span></a> <a href="https://social.edu.nl/tags/linkRot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>linkRot</span></a> <a href="https://social.edu.nl/tags/cheminformatics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cheminformatics</span></a> <a href="https://social.edu.nl/tags/openscience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>openscience</span></a></p>
poleguy<p>A new blog post for 2025. Very brief. There was a rotten link on wikipedia on port knocking. I re-hosted the file because it was very hard to find. The update to <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/wikipedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>wikipedia</span></a> got flagged by a filter as potential self promotion. I'm not sure it'll stick or not. I'm not sure what the rules even are these days.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/linkrot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>linkrot</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://poleguy.com/blog/port-knocking.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">poleguy.com/blog/port-knocking</span><span class="invisible">.html</span></a></p>
Terence Eden<p>I now have a page which automatically calculates how bad <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/linkrot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>linkrot</span></a> is on my blog.</p><p><a href="https://shkspr.mobi/blog/link-rot/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">shkspr.mobi/blog/link-rot/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
pablolarah<p>✉️ Cool URLs don't change (but they don't have to last forever)<br>by <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@cferdinandi" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>cferdinandi</span></a></span> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/url" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>url</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LinkRot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LinkRot</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/webdev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>webdev</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://gomakethings.com/cool-urls-dont-change-but-they-dont-have-to-last-forever/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">gomakethings.com/cool-urls-don</span><span class="invisible">t-change-but-they-dont-have-to-last-forever/</span></a></p>
Jeanne (spellboundblog)<p>Interesting essay looking at link rot and disappearing online content from the perspective of a content creator: </p><p><a href="https://www.theverge.com/24321569/internet-decay-link-rot-web-archive-deleted-culture" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theverge.com/24321569/internet</span><span class="invisible">-decay-link-rot-web-archive-deleted-culture</span></a></p><p><a href="https://digipres.club/tags/DigitalPreservation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DigitalPreservation</span></a> <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/DigitalHumanities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DigitalHumanities</span></a> <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/content" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>content</span></a> <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/linkrot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>linkrot</span></a> <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/WebArchiving" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WebArchiving</span></a></p>
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