Archive Everything

The reason behind this mostly comes from search engines becoming more and more bloated and useless.

If you find something, you may never find it again after you've lost it. This is especially important for the fediverse, search is still pretty hit and miss. If you find a good toot, a good link, a good link in a good toot? Save it.

If you'd really like to find the information you saved again, you should save an offline copy. This is mostly to combat the whole digital book burning that appears to be happening at the minute.

Even better again is to then share the links you've saved, and the content in them, somewhere relatively visible. In the same way tech companies run many instances of their services to ensure their software is resilient, we should save information in lots of places. The Internet archive attempts to do this, but that's just moving the problem somewhere else. If you have a blog or a site, consider sharing links via a linklog or a /links page. This will help with discovery in addition to retrieval!

Resources

• A Guide to Archiving on the Internet
• Safeguarding Research
• Linkwarden: a self-hosted, open-source collaborative bookmark manager to collect, organize and archive webpages (Linkwarden.app)
• Readwise
• YunoHost
• CryptPad.fr + Privacy Guides
• Control Your Collaborations | The Opt Out Project
• Paperless-ngx
• Nextcloud Office