Mastodawn

We've teamed up with Automattic to fight link rot on the open web. Check out the new Internet Archive Wayback Machine Link Fixer for WordPress. The free plugin preserves pages, redirects broken links to archived versions, and helps ensure the web keeps its memory.

“It’s very important that websites have a memory," said Alexander Rose of Automattic. "When links go dead, in effect, the truth goes dead—especially in the age of AI,”

Learn more ➡️ https://blog.archive.org/2026/02/04/inside-the-new-wayback-machine-plugin-for-wordpress/

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Luna Lactea Feb 4

@internetarchive Automattic is the fifth last (after Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft, & Google) company you should ever consider teaming up with. Have things really gotten that bad? Is there not a way for people to sign up to have their website crawled periodically by archive.org so they don't need to rely on a plugin from a horrifically anti LGBT company? What justifies associating with a company that has this reputation?

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Chuff

Wasn't aware that they were a bad company, but considering how much of the internet seems to rely on them, I'm constantly running into blogs and sites built with WordPress (they also own Tumblr), it seems to me that this isn't a bad thing as it'll preserve a large chunk of the web when they go down.

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Luna Lactea Feb 5

@chuff @internetarchive Yeah, the Automattic acquisition of Tumblr resulted in pretty much every transgender person being banned from it. People only use WordPress because there isn't much else with its feature set or ecosystem, it has no competition.