Existing Online
What do we owe others with our online existence?
I felt bad when I deleted most of my Substack posts, because other people had left thoughtful comments on them. But we were all building on someone else's platform.
Shortly after I deleted the Substack posts, someone reached out to me to ask what had happened to one of the essays. They were looking at it just last week, they wrote, and wanted to send it to a friend. I put it back up for them.
Then took it down again later.
"Link rot" is real. Apparently 38% of webpages that existed at one point between 2013 and 2023 are no longer there.
For Later:
https://cyoo.substack.com/p/when-sharing-becomes-the-creative
https://culturedigitally.org/2019/03/the-gentrification-of-the-internet/
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/04/27/when-your-digital-life-vanishes
https://www.eff.org/pages/when-knowing-someone-meta-only-way-break-out-content-jail
https://binaryigor.com/who-controls-the-internet-and-how-it-works.html
https://www.joanwestenberg.com/uh-oh-the-infantilization-of-failure/