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Why Everyone Should Take 30 Seconds to Opt-in to the Delicious Data Transfer

41 points by atularora 15y ago

wccrawford 15y ago
Yes, good lord. Why haven't you already spent your previous time to make money for other people? Are you people selfish? C'mon, hurry up and go do things for other people that you've never met. I migrated mine because I want them migrated. If you people don't, they don't, and they shouldn't bother. And they definitely shouldn't be giving personal information to strangers without anything in return. (And your list of favorite websites IS personal information.)
- Semiapies 15y ago
  Agreed. I'm going to do it later today, but this post is the stupidest reason to do so I can think of.
benologist 15y ago
Just because it might be the foundation for another bigcorp is not a particularly strong reason. People should migrate if they want to keep using it, and Yahoo/Delicious will probably anonymize the leftovers regardless.
GrooveStomp 15y ago
I used to use Delicious, but I amm-scrayed to Diigo during the rumours of it's collapse. So what's my point? 1. I'm not going to sign in to Delicious. 2. They won't get my data. 3. My data won't be lost, because it's now on Diigo. So there! Nyah! :)
Groxx 15y ago
Wow. That's some of the worst reasoning I've seen in quite a while. And the most intrusive on-copy behavior I've ever seen. >To preserve that which is most popular. Because what's popular doesn't change quickly, and if we lost some Delicious data how would we know if something is popular or not?! OH THE HUMANITY! >To preserve the system of classification, the taxonomy, the tags per URL. What? How in the hell did they connect those two dots? >Hopefully new things will be born. Because... free old data will encourage them to make new features? Migrate if you'll use the migrated service. Its success will be based off where Delicious goes, and if it re-gains traction, not your stagnant data.
drivingmenuts 15y ago
Better time would be spent ensuring that out-of-date data doesn't get replicated.
pstack 15y ago
I'm confused. The article says that it's important that I do this, because my "data exhaust" is going to be the future currency of the web. In exactly what way? They never explain how I'm supposed to use this currency to benefit from anything. I can only assume they mean that it's someone else's currency that they can use for their benefit, which I couldn't care less about. Also, I already migrated my Delicious data -- to pinboard.in -- where the emphasis is on anti-social bookmarking. I just want to have a great way to archive and organize my bookmarks and access them on the most devices with the least difficulty in doing so and maybe have a few great features like saving cached copies of the web pages I bookmarked and doing fulltext search of the entire contents of the pages I've bookmarked. I couldn't really care less about my bookmarks being used for everyone else's benefit.
drdaeman 15y ago
I'm sick of having account here and there. Some of my peers remained at Delicious, some ran to Diigo, and I'm currently using Pinboard. I'd prefer that bookmarking sites would cooperate in some way. Not just importing data or having some sort of master-slave replication, but making inter-site social networking possible (OStatus?) and actively exchanging data. Sure, from business perspective, the data (and the user base) could be considered as assets, so site owners have no incentive in doing this. But I still have a dream...

41 points by atularora 15y ago

Yes, good lord. Why haven't you already spent your previous time to make money for other people? Are you people selfish? C'mon, hurry up and go do things for other people that you've never met. I migrated mine because I want them migrated. If you people don't, they don't, and they shouldn't bother. And they definitely shouldn't be giving personal information to strangers without anything in return. (And your list of favorite websites IS personal information.)

Semiapies 15y ago
Agreed. I'm going to do it later today, but this post is the stupidest reason to do so I can think of.

benologist 15y ago

Just because it might be the foundation for another bigcorp is not a particularly strong reason. People should migrate if they want to keep using it, and Yahoo/Delicious will probably anonymize the leftovers regardless.

GrooveStomp 15y ago

I used to use Delicious, but I amm-scrayed to Diigo during the rumours of it's collapse. So what's my point? 1. I'm not going to sign in to Delicious. 2. They won't get my data. 3. My data won't be lost, because it's now on Diigo. So there! Nyah! :)

Groxx 15y ago

Wow. That's some of the worst reasoning I've seen in quite a while. And the most intrusive on-copy behavior I've ever seen. >To preserve that which is most popular. Because what's popular doesn't change quickly, and if we lost some Delicious data how would we know if something is popular or not?! OH THE HUMANITY! >To preserve the system of classification, the taxonomy, the tags per URL. What? How in the hell did they connect those two dots? >Hopefully new things will be born. Because... free old data will encourage them to make new features? Migrate if you'll use the migrated service. Its success will be based off where Delicious goes, and if it re-gains traction, not your stagnant data.

drivingmenuts 15y ago

Better time would be spent ensuring that out-of-date data doesn't get replicated.

pstack 15y ago

I'm confused. The article says that it's important that I do this, because my "data exhaust" is going to be the future currency of the web. In exactly what way? They never explain how I'm supposed to use this currency to benefit from anything. I can only assume they mean that it's someone else's currency that they can use for their benefit, which I couldn't care less about. Also, I already migrated my Delicious data -- to pinboard.in -- where the emphasis is on anti-social bookmarking. I just want to have a great way to archive and organize my bookmarks and access them on the most devices with the least difficulty in doing so and maybe have a few great features like saving cached copies of the web pages I bookmarked and doing fulltext search of the entire contents of the pages I've bookmarked. I couldn't really care less about my bookmarks being used for everyone else's benefit.

drdaeman 15y ago

I'm sick of having account here and there. Some of my peers remained at Delicious, some ran to Diigo, and I'm currently using Pinboard. I'd prefer that bookmarking sites would cooperate in some way. Not just importing data or having some sort of master-slave replication, but making inter-site social networking possible (OStatus?) and actively exchanging data. Sure, from business perspective, the data (and the user base) could be considered as assets, so site owners have no incentive in doing this. But I still have a dream...