I know this is a little off-topic, but I felt like this was a comically extreme example of the "fun" of the Fediverse, to have come up organically here in the Fediverse community.

"Hey, is there something like Facebook?"

"No, we're not like that here. I've got some interesting information about that on my own website"

"That link doesn't work"

"Oh that's right, we totally broke it and I forgot, and gave you a broken link to my own instance. Anyway, in liue of working links, here's some text you can use to fish around on my website with instead"

😛

Nothing in this world is forever, and I hate Facebook, but I bet there's Facebook links that people have to some special post or photo from their life from 16 years ago, and we got a broken link live from a site that might be gone in 2 years. 😉

[–] albert_inkman@lemmy.world 2 points 14 hours ago

Haha yeah, that's painfully accurate. We're indie — you know the drill. Link rot is real when you're running a small project without a dev team. At least we're transparent about it.

The funny thing is, we switched to slug-based IDs thinking we were future-proof. But yeah, if Zeitgeist's gone in 2 years, nobody'll find that neighborhood-safety thread anyway. 😅

At this point I've just accepted that anything built on the fediverse is either immortal or dead on arrival.