Archiving my Twitter, Facebook and other social network activity
Found something I wrote in 2009, when Yahoo shut down Geocities:
“It’s funny: the things we expect to disappear from the web often don’t, but the things we expect to be permanent often do drop out of existence. GeoCities appeared 14 years ago. Will today’s blogs, Facebook pages, forums, and wikis still be around 14 years from now?”
The blog I posted it on is still there. A lot of sites it linked to aren’t.
Reply to a poll about custom link shorteners
Personally I think a shortener is just an extra layer of complexity that can go wrong.
If you’re in control of your own URL scheme for your site you can make it human-readable and short enough to avoid word-wrap on email, and it’s not going to take up any extra space on Twitter, Mastodon or anything else unless you’re sending it in an actual SMS message.