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From latest GameLinked episode (Linus Tech Tips gaming news channel)

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[-] curry@programming.dev 31 points 3 months ago

I'm worried about the link rot problem when the specific instance used as source goes down.

[-] scroll_responsibly@lemmy.sdf.org 16 points 3 months ago

It’s like we need a DOI system for lemmy posts.

[-] Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works 15 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

When I use a website as a source, at the time that I access it for information, I will also save a snapshot of it in the Wayback Machine. Ofc theres no guarantee that the Internet Archive will be able to survive, but the likelihood of that is probably far greater than some random website. So, if the link dies, one can still see it in the Wayback Machine. This also has the added benefit of locking in time what the source looked like when it was accessed (assuming one timestamps when they access the source when they cite it).

[-] sysop@lemmy.world 13 points 3 months ago

That's unfortunately just how the internet is/works. It's all links and links to each other. Check out https://archive.is and https://archive.ph - Maybe we can build a decentralized archive thing based on IPFS or something

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