Anil Dashrelevant to my post last night that I'm going back and fixing up my 23 years of blog archives, and restoring broken links, it is *astounding* how much better a job the personal web does at keeping links alive and content online. Most personal blogs I linked to are either still around or redirect to a place where the content is easy to find. The vast majority of corporate content (including news) has been erased, with only imperfect Internet Archive copies available.
Kevin Marks@anildash we've been compiling a list at https://indieweb.org/site-deaths for a while. Which does make me wonder why you moved your mastodon presence into a corporate silo rather than your own site.
Christina Warren@KevinMarks @anildash I’d be curious about this too, tho I think the decentralized nature makes it easy to migrate. I’ve considered my own instance but I don’t know if I have it in me to do the maintainance tbh.
Jonathan LaCour@film_girl @KevinMarks @anildash the long-term answer here, IMO, is Mastodon-compatible services that let you bring your own domain/identity without the hosting hassle. Ideally, they’d also provide domain registration and light DNS.
Micro.blog isn’t really that, at this point. They’ve chosen to be a separate, but connected network.
Identity and hosting should not be intrinsically linked!