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Where does one store favorite links so I can handle them on phone and two separate machines?

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On your ftp account, where else?

I prefer to telnet it over with a bespoke protocol loosely based on gopher.

Hold on, let me spin up my IMP nodes first.

that sounds like the lazy guy's way of doing it.

What can I say, the product guys have gotten to me. This was an MVP approach.

Yeah, real nerds build their own router for maximum bespokeness.

Wonderful comment. Thanks : - )

This niche use case which offers a marginal benefit even to those who want it, is a laughable mask for the assembly and deployment of one of the world's largest data harvesting networks, the browser 'sync' account

> Where does one store favorite links so I can handle them on phone and two separate machines?

Linkding: https://github.com/sissbruecker/linkding

Linkding is great, and has some browser extensions to inject your favourites into relevant search pages on the likes of google, ddg, bing, etc, which was a nice idea I hadn't considered before

You value the syncing browser accounts offer. Personally I like being able to go between several of my own computers and not have all settings synced. It's not a fresh slate situation but it is a bit freeing to not carry all my digital baggage all the time.

Good for you. Firefox accounts are optional.

Indeed. I happen to know this because I use Firefox on a daily basis and have never once been pestered to use one.

So a browser with accounts works for you. So your comment was irrelevant.

Wow, you sure got me. You want a medal or something?

I just use my domain with a simple frontend for links

On your personal homepage's bookmarks page.

What about bookmarks that I don’t necessarily want to be publicly known. Not even talking about anything potentially embarrassing. Things like where I bank or my doctor’s appointment booking page.

Presumably that's a small set of bookmarks which you could manage across devices.

Other options might be to have that personal homepage on a non-public machine (e.g., on your home or office LAN), behind a VPN, and/or password protected.

Another practice from days of yore was to export specific bookmarks and transfer those to other systems. This is indeed cumbersome with mobile browsers (I'm not sure these even offer bookmark import/export ... Looks as if that's synch-only for Firefox/Android, which is disappointing.

I'm using raindrop.io. So far, even the free tier works well for me.

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