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From: Joseph Turner via libreplanet-discuss <libreplanet-discuss@libreplanet.org>
To: Akira Urushibata <afu@wta.att.ne.jp>
Cc: libreplanet-discuss@libreplanet.org
Subject: Re: Are websites closing down en masse?
Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2023 22:29:10 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lea5uonc.fsf@ushin.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2023.12.04.12.53.56.980948660@afu.wta.att.ne.jp>

Hi Akira!

Akira Urushibata <afu@wta.att.ne.jp> writes:

> Recently I feel I frequently encounter defunct links.  Links to
> external material toward the bottom of Wikipedia articles often turn
> out to be unavailable.

[...]

> One possibility I can think of is that hosting services are somehow
> affected by inflation, higher interest rates and staff cutbacks at IT
> firms.  If anybody has better insight on the matter I'd very much like
> to learn.

I don't know why websites might be disappearing more rapidly nowadays,
but I view it as an opportunity to consider peer-to-peer alternatives
which are more resilient to data loss.

For backing up existing websites you encounter on the web:

https://archiveweb.page/

For a peer-to-peer personal websites managed in Emacs:

https://ushin.org/hyperdrive/hyperdrive-manual.html

[ Disclaimer: I am one of the maintainers of hyperdrive.el ]

Thank you!!

Joseph




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  parent reply	other threads:[~2023-12-08 15:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-12-04  3:53 Are websites closing down en masse? Akira Urushibata
2023-12-04 19:00 ` Paul Sutton via libreplanet-discuss
2023-12-08  6:29 ` Joseph Turner via libreplanet-discuss [this message]
2023-12-13 14:11 ` Are websites closing down en masse? (distributed free standards and tools) Paul D. Fernhout
2023-12-13 15:46   ` Joseph Turner via libreplanet-discuss
2023-12-15  2:47     ` Paul D. Fernhout
2023-12-16 21:25       ` Joseph Turner via libreplanet-discuss
     [not found] <mailman.93.1701709319.31752.libreplanet-discuss@libreplanet.org>
2023-12-04 20:59 ` Are websites closing down en masse? Laurent Lyaudet

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