Tootfinder

The link leads to a video. Generally speaking I prefer to read rather than watch - but this is an exception
"While the early web promised connection and creativity, today’s internet is increasingly fragmented, paywalled, and dominated by a few powerful platforms.
“The truth is paywalled, and the lies are free”

I love how everything I write now (or edit after reviews) involves extra steps in looking up Internet Archive links for British Library web pages and blog posts so that links in footnotes actually work.
* I lied, I don't love it.

I guess the Internet Archive is now a for-Proffitt...
https://mastodon.archive.org/@internetarchive/115611174274779543

internetarchive (@internetarchive@mastodon.archive.org)
Attached: 1 image The Internet Archive welcomes Merrilee Proffitt as director of Democracy’s Library, US! With decades in digital libraries & open knowledge, she’ll expand free, online access to government research, supporting transparency, equity, and democratic engagement. Learn more at our blog ⤵️ https://blog.archive.org/2025/11/18/meet-merrilee-proffitt-director-of-democracys-library-us/ @internetarchive

Holy moly, Anna's Archive hat Spotify gescraped und archiviert: ~ 300 TiB
https://annas-archive.org/blog/backing-up-spotify.html
Alleine die Datenbank mit allen Metadaten ist schon 200 GiB und wird munter via Torrent geteilt

It’s about this time of year I like to check my backups and download my archives.
One archive I download is the archive of my Mastodon posts. Pretty much the only one now I’ve left the corporate web really.
I also like to copy the contents of my public fediverse posts into my own diary within my vimwiki.
Keep it all in one place for easy and local search.
Here’s the script I use, it’s very short and just copies the content of every post in the archive into a new diary entry in the vimwiki diary.
If it finds something already there, it appends.
It checks if it’s already written this post into the diary to avoid duplicating it when you run it over and every again every month or year or whatever.
Paste it into a new text-file called toVimWiki.php, download and unzip your mastodon archive, and run the script with php, passing it the path to the archive’s outbox.json and the root diary directory.
My diary is honestly mostly just public posts these days. Ain’t much in it I won’t blab about on the internet for likes and lols.
#archive #mastodon #vimwiki #endOfYear