Pinboard

[norwich36]

I know there's a lot of attention right now to Twitter's implosion and possible alternative sites,but I'm actually a little more worried about pinboard going down--there's a discussion of this here.

I have backed up my bookmarks, of course, but are there any alternative social networking bookmark places? I do get a ton of my reading recs from pinboard, either my own network or just generally searching the site, and that's the part I'd really hate to lose. Also, I don't even know a lot of people in my network; I just followed them because they bookmark cool stuff, and wouldn't really know how to find them again if pinboard goes down.

I'm making this post mostly so I can pin it; if anyone in my network wants to leave a comment for how to find you in the future (or DM me), or has suggestions about where to migrate in the event that pinboard collapses, I'd appreciate it!

Edited to add:

A couple suggestions for alternate sites: raindrop.io, which is bookmarking, not social.

Also, the current first comment here talks about someone developing a new social bookmarking site. (Direct link in case the comments change significantly: https://ln.ht/ ).

LATER EDIT:
Here's a pretty good review comparing pinboard to raindrop.io: https://dsalo.info/pinboard-vs-raindrop-two-bookmark-apps-enter/

Comments

[musesfool]

I imported my pinboard to raindrop.io and made the recs part of it public here: https://raindrop.io/victoriap715/recs-and-links-28986963

I don't believe it has the network aspect that pinboard and delicious had, but before yesterday I thought it was all public with no option for private bookmarks, and learned that it is the opposite - everything is private unless you make it public by creating a sharing link. The tagging and bundling functionality is great - it's the networking aspect that we stand to lose, I think.

[norwich36]

Thanks! That will be helpful at least for the bookmarking part, and I'm glad to know about the public v. private options.

It's quite possible pinboard will limp along for quite some time; at least I'm not worried about Maciej selling it to a semi-sociopathic billionaire who will bring it down in flames.

[kiriel123]

I just made a raindrop.io as well and imported my bookmarks over there. I'll probably save to both pinboard and raindrop: https://raindrop.io/kit12123/import-29085336

One thing about the import is my private bookmarks and public bookmarks all imported into the same collection, and collections are what can be shared. I tend to keep things I've marked as to read later private but there's also a few hundred of those bookmarks so I'm not going to go back and separate into multiple collections because that would be time consuming

[norwich36]

Thanks! I guess I need to set up an account over there (though I agree with you about the hassle of making things public v. private).

[zimaya]

After LJ and Delicious, I dread yet another exodus, but it's better to be aware, huh. Seeing your link to here on Pinboard motivated me to dust off my DW account. I'll signal-boost it on PB as well! I'm still hoping for a more-social option than it sounds like Raindrop offers(?) (Or maybe, PB will keep working?? T_T)

[norwich36]

I really hope pinboard will just keep working. I like the site and the alternatives don't look great. Thanks for signal boosting!