Uses for Flickr

Fremantle2026 September 22 (Tuesday), 1:22PM· genealogy · Flickr · Who FediFlick Archive Is Actually For, 13 September 2026, by Leo Gaggl: The third is genealogists and family historians, and everyone who travels specifically to the town their grandmother left, the church a great-grandfather was married in, the street that shows up in one faded photo with no caption. It’s the same anthropogeography as the first group, narrowed from a region or a species to a single family’s line. And the practical gap is sharp: most genealogists’ photo finds live on one person’s Flickr account with no succession plan. When that person dies or deletes, the photos vanish from the record. "No succession plan" here is true, but one good thing about Flickr is that anyone can pay for someone else's account, to keep it alive. That's not true of very many services. ← Previous My main RSS news feed: https://samwilson.id.au/news.rss(or Wikimedia.rss, Fremantle.rss, OpenStreetMap.rss, etc. for topic feeds).…