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No Longer Posting to Pinboard

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Re: No Longer Posting to Pinboard

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Post by Philpax »

hombre_fatal wrote: post #19
Philpax wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Seems unlikely that someone with this profile [0] would be an oligarch booster. It seems more likely that it's about Maciej's slow rightwards shift [1]. [0] https://www.gyford.com/phil/about/ [1] https://bsky.app/profile/anildash.com/post/3lhkkre2h422z

Why not link to the boosted Singal post instead of to someone saying it’s super bad?

I don't have a link to the post (I don't use X these days) and I assumed illustrating recent sentiment would be sufficient for my counterclaim about what ailed the author.

Re: No Longer Posting to Pinboard

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Post by antithesis-nl »

Philpax wrote: post #16
antithesis-nl wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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Seems unlikely that someone with this profile [0] would be an oligarch booster. It seems more likely that it's about Maciej's slow rightwards shift [1]. [0] https://www.gyford.com/phil/about/ [1] https://bsky.app/profile/anildash.com/post/3lhkkre2h422z

Yeah, possibly, but it just goes to show that vague side-swipes are never good in presumably technical posts, and that I should know better as well :)

Re: No Longer Posting to Pinboard

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Post by hombre_fatal »

Philpax wrote: post #21
hombre_fatal wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why not link to the boosted Singal post instead of to someone saying it’s super bad?

I don't have a link to the post (I don't use X these days) and I assumed illustrating recent sentiment would be sufficient for my counterclaim about what ailed the author.

It’s a link to someone calling someone a -phobe on the internet. Worth less than zero.

Re: No Longer Posting to Pinboard

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Post by aredox »

antithesis-nl wrote: post #13
vasco wrote: post #6

> I’ve also had some issues in the past with the owner of Pinboard. I can’t recall the exact details of their political or other thoughts now, and don’t plan to look for them, but the site fell into my mental bucket of “services to reluctantly not recommend” a while back. > Mental note: I need a bigger bucket. This section really makes the author come across as "a hater", specially the last sentence. Like those peopl…

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Maciej is another "a little knowledge is a dangerous thing"-type pundit - a.k.a. "smart-ss".

He is sometimes right (his analysis of website obesity), sometimes completely wrong (he argued at length during the COVID pandemic that Belarus was doing something right, when it was obvious from the beginning that it was just a dictatorship cooking numbers - confirmed by post-analysis that shows abnormal rounding and other aberrant distributions) and in both cases he will be insufferably confident and arrogant he got it right.

The kind of guy who never stops to ask himself if he could be wrong, instead devoting all his brainpower finding all the reasons you are certainly wrong. (Which, unsurprisingly, applies when a pinboard user asks for support, too.)

Re: No Longer Posting to Pinboard

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Post by stared »

I have been using Pinboard for ages (14k links so far).

I appreciate that it remains unchanged. Many other services have deteriorated over time in their pursuit of "social engagement".

The ability to publicly display my links is useful, though I mainly use it for proactive sharing rather than being discovered.

Pinboard is social in an introvert's way - compared to other platforms that are social like street salesmen soliciting attention.

Re: No Longer Posting to Pinboard

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Post by wink »

bambax wrote: post #17

I joined Pinboard at a time when there was no recurring costs, just a small fee to join, for life. I think I paid $10 total, 12 or 15 years ago, and not a penny since. For that amount it's a pretty good deal.

I think I got a couple sternly worded emails that sounded like "I can't make you pay, but you should pay now".

Re: No Longer Posting to Pinboard

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Post by Philpax »

hombre_fatal wrote: post #23
Philpax wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't have a link to the post (I don't use X these days) and I assumed illustrating recent sentiment would be sufficient for my counterclaim about what ailed the author.

It’s a link to someone calling someone a -phobe on the internet. Worth less than zero.

Ok, here's a blog post that transcludes an example of Maciej's transphobia from last year: https://schwarztech.net/snippets/oh-look-misplaced-transphob...

Re: No Longer Posting to Pinboard

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Post by wink »

easygenes wrote: post #12
pitzips wrote: post #4

The design of Pinboard exists in a similar but self hosted service called linkding [1]. I've been self hosting with Docker for a few years with no issues I can recall. Just checked and it does have the responsive forms as well. [1]: https://github.com/sissbruecker/linkding

Cool! Is there a straightforward way to import your Pinboard?

Not the one you replied to, but I can check later if I don't forget, but I happily switched to linkding (without importing) and I don't miss anything.

Re: No Longer Posting to Pinboard

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Post by easyThrowaway »

eitland wrote: post #18

I stopped paying (and using it) a couple of years ago. I have a lifetime account so my bookmarks are still there. Reason: I had started paying yearly for the archive option and it stopped working and I tried and failed several times to get in contact with support. I now use raindrop.io, it is reasonably priced, has api, lets me import pinboard bookmarks, and unlike pinboard.in it still works for me.

> Reason: I had started paying yearly for the archive option and it stopped working and I tried and failed several times to get in contact with support.

Same. Archival stopped working, got a bunch of very confrontative replies from the admin and felt it wasn't worth my time to argue with him.

By the way, didn't notice that raindrop.io started offering a permanent library. That's great. I wish ReadKit supported it too. (Pocket permanent library had the very same issue a long time ago, I stopped using it for this reason).

Is there any tool to migrate from pinboard to raindrop while keeping all the tags and permanent pages stored at the time it was saved?

Re: No Longer Posting to Pinboard

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Post by bad_user »

pitzips wrote: post #4

The design of Pinboard exists in a similar but self hosted service called linkding [1]. I've been self hosting with Docker for a few years with no issues I can recall. Just checked and it does have the responsive forms as well. [1]: https://github.com/sissbruecker/linkding

Oh, wow, I just installed it on my server, and it's great (づ ◕‿◕ )づ
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