Do we need a new social media paradigm?

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This thread is for thinking outside the existing boxes, or using the existing boxes in new ways. Let's start out with greywash's post the idea of a network of persistent fannish apothecary chests of holding.

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[oulfis]

I was joking with greywash earlier that we're kind of hitting the problems that I'm examining in my dissertation -- that our problems kind of lie in linkrot. This is what I said to her in chat:

I've been playing around with having a personal website

partly to brush up on HTML/CSS and partly just to have a space totally by my own rules

so far it's BASICALLY nothing, just two poems, but it seems like a good place to put, like, my "uncomfortably sincere guillotine advice" and "personal reference for how to make a library look cool"

but even that makes me think about how helpful a, like, anti-linkrot system would be
if I put the guillotine advice on my own site, and mirror it to DW (as I plan to do), and then DW goes down and also I reorganize my site so the URL changes...

I would be totally willing to update someplace with some "btw this is all the same post" info to redirect links
rankly this is the problem that my dissertation is beating its head against in re: 18thC digital archives

oh!! do we need -- Linked Open Data Of Our Own??

I haven't really finished thinking that through, but here's a vaguely useful-looking primer on LOD: https://www.ontotext.com/knowledgehub/fundamentals/linked-data-linked-open-data/

A related phrase to google is The Semantic Web: https://www.ontotext.com/knowledgehub/fundamentals/what-is-the-semantic-web/

That's DEFINITELY not a good source for that info (it looks for-profit so I don't trust it) but this is The Good Stuff over in digital archival studies so it would be good to think about how fandom can get in on it.