Yup. Three months without search engines. It was… not without issues.

I think the advice the author gives is silly. It ignores the human tendency to respond to criticism. Furthermore, the advice they give goes both ways: why are people who don’t need the advice or feel like it doesn’t apply interpreting it in bad faith and so complaining about it to OP?

I now prescribe some actual solutions to this problem as the author describes it. One is to not have your posts leave the context they were written in (e.g. private accounts, insulated networks a la Hometown, or even tag whitelists). Another is to not allow people to comment on your post, or at least make referring to it relatively inconvenient (e.g. the blogosphere), and so just let it sit. A final suggestion is to not post advice at all. This last one ignores the human desire to share with others, and so really reads as “stop using social media.” Ah, well.

i have written a few short guides and notes about ways you can help contribute to media preservation by doing it your damn self. most of the guides lean very technical, but i try to give appropriate explanations and links to the tools and documentation where i can.

“On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog” is an adage and Internet meme about Internet anonymity which began as a caption to a cartoon drawn by Peter Steiner, published in the July 5, 1993 issue of the American magazine The New Yorker.