[meehow]

I was checking my old bookmarks and big part of them was outdated (404). Average lifespan of a website is 100 days https://blogs.loc.gov/thesignal/2011/11/the-average-lifespan... , but I would like to keep some articles to read and share even way later. I thought that it would be nice to have simple tool, which doesn't require setting up another account. Just backup and add a link to bookmarks. Because all technologies needed to fix the problem are already here, I just put them together.

[realPubkey]

Is it really a backup? Ipfs has no 'upload' so if you clear your local storage, everything will be gone. I think it's unlikely that multiple users will generate the same content hash.

[meehow]

Right, it's a local, sharable copy. Actually Readability cuts off so much HTML, that it's quite possible that 2 users will generate the same hash even from very dynamic website.

[benj111]

Really?

What kind of hash are we talking about here? And generated from what?

I could imagine the opposite, generating 2 hashes from the 'same' article, due to different markup being stripped. Not what you suggest though.

[StavrosK]

Unfortunately it's unlikely to be a backup, since everything will only live on your local computer. You might get the content from some other user if, by chance, they generated the exact same bytes, but it's rather unlikely.

To back things up, you'll want to pin to an external server like Eternum.io.

[ghthor]

If you export your bookmarks you could autoparse them and ipfs pin and ipfs links to a longer lived archival node running on you main host or offsite/cloud.

[hecturchi]

You could plug IPFS Cluster's proxy endpoint (:9095) instead of the IPFS daemon API endpoint and get everything you add replicated to a backup peer.

[mcv]

I'm not sure whether this is a brilliant or a terrible idea. I have a tendency to collect my to-read stuff in tabs, and every once in a while I clean up my old tabs, read some of the stuff I intended to read, and discover many of them don't exist anymore. So a backup is great, but actually not having to read all the stuff I collect saves me a lot of time.