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

[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).