I like the general principle here of trying to keep website design relatively simple and self-reliant, but I'm not sure I agree with the idea that "link rot" is some horrible problem we desperately need a solution for. Good articles will be lost in time, but I think that's OK. New good ones will be written too. It's OK for content to be ephemeral, we don't have to be so obsessed with FOMO and making sure every blogpost ever made is etched into diamond to survive for 100 generations. If you read some article you thought was great, it's OK to just be happy you read it rather than spamming it to the four corners of the earth to give it as many eyes as possible.