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Is anyone else anxious about using the bookmark feature on Tildes?
Maybe it's just because I've lost my bookmarks so many times, one way or another. I now avoid using website-specific bookmarks, you never know when the website could shut down or you could lose the bookmarks some other way. not saying Tildes will shut down; I'm sure it won't be any time soon, but I still can't get myself to use it even though it's so convenient ☹️ does anyone else feel the same way ?
No, I don't feel the same way, because I know that nothing I save as a bookmark, either on a website or in my browser, is permanent. Whether I'll lose it in a month or a year or a decade... I will lose it at some point.
The closest thing to permanence is for me to save a copy of the webpage itself to my computer - and even that saved copy could get lost at some future point. So I'd need to save a back-up copy. And then I remember that I once had some important word-processing files that I lost access to when that software company stopped supporting their word-processing software and the word-processing software I migrated to didn't support that previous file format.
In short: nothing digital is permanent. Nothing at all.
So, I save bookmarks, knowing that they'll only last as long as someone else decides they should last - but for that duration, those bookmarks are still useful to me.
I'd go even further and say nothing at all is permanent. All things fade, the universe included. It's taken me a long time to accept that concept because sometimes it's hard to let go of certain things and concepts. I refused to accept the inevitable. Now that I finally have I've found a sort of peace.
Not to pile on to the inevitable loss idea, but the Kurzgesagt - In a Nutshell channel has gone a long way to help me understand a lot of higher level concepts, and come to terms with impossibilities. Specific to the heat death of the universe, and why humanity will never get to explore the cosmos at large, this video does a good job of tackling that idea.
I agree. One of my personal maxims is the old saying "This, too, shall pass."
But, in a universe of impermanence, digital items are more impermanent than many other items we might try to hold on to.
I would remind myself of that saying during tough moments...until I heard it being used by someone who was going through a really positive period of their lives. Only then did that phrase really sink in!
Yep!
I originally heard this phrase as part of a story.
So, I've always known it was an upper and a downer.
I only use bookmarks here to tag threads I’m interested in coming back to later after more replies have aggregated. It’s an easy way to keep up with threads I may otherwise lose or forget about. If there is something valuable I’d want to retain, I either put it in knowledge management or my self-hosted LinkDing instance (an actual bookmark manager).
There's only so many times a home can burn down that one stops feeling safe storing things at home. There have been so many sites lost, so many purges, that yeah, I can completely understand the apprehension.
You could check out https://notado.app/. I don’t remember who the creator is (but they’re on Tildes). [EDIT: It’s @LGUG2Z]
It looks like a decent way to bookmark comments & sections of articles, and then I think it can sync to other applications and is exportable (but I don’t know what the export format is). I don’t personally use it (yet), but it did stick in my mind as something I plan on looking into potentially using.
Hi! You can export immediately to JSON from the settings page (no waiting for an email export) and you can also set up automated IFTTT-style forwards of anything saved to Readwise, Pinboard and Instapaper. 🚀
I see it as similar to the saved posts on reddit. I use it to save posts I want to visit later, whether to reply to it later, or to check the contents if it's a list of links or recommendations. I don't worry about it the way you describe because if Tildes shuts down... Well, those bookmarked posts would be lost anyway.