35% of #BlackLivesMatter tweets created between 2013 and 2021 are no longer available on Twitter, report finds.
Elon, you disgusting piece of trash. You’re not living in Apartheid-era South Africa anymore.
He’s certainly trying…
It’s so weird to think what will happen to the voices of movements that were widespread and then become fragmented as time goes on. Somehow it feels like the internet never forgets but then what happened to the voices of Occupy? I hope the Fediverse will help in preserving such things with it’s decentralized nature. No fuck boy Elons running around deciding what history stays written.
The Fediverse is far worse for keeping things.
Lots of small instances, who’s hosts aren’t able to run a server for as many years as a large company can afford to.
All your comments are one bad day away from your admin deciding to close down their server and spend their energy elsewhere.
The Internet Archive is also at risk at being shut down due to copy right fuckstains.
The internet can often never forget but things do get wiped out when sites go under. Think about random forums from a decade ago with dead links or images that aren’t hosted anymore.
Some tweets actually get backed up by the Library of Congress so some percentage of voices are probably preserved.
I think we tend to overestimate how solid things are, even in the digital world. The concept of “bit-rot”, for instance, shows how online links degrade over time as sites move or, say, a major website preparing for an IPO enrages its users who then delete or edit all their comments in protest (lol, like that’d ever happen).
Bit rot? Forgive an old Gen X gamer, but that’s a term I heard thrown around in the 1990s to refer to the steady decay of optical media; CD-ROMs and such. Has the definition been changed? Or perhaps addended?
Oops, good catch - “link rot” was the term I was thinking of, should have wiki’d it before so confidently posting.
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Make a gimmick out of something and it gets old. People are fickle; trendy crusades get boring. Remember when ‘time was up’ about 10 years ago? Me
tooneither.Sad, but true.
Maybe if you think human rights for people with different color skin than you is a “fickle” and “trendy crusade,” then it’s time for you to reevaluate your positions.
If you’re still on Twitter, you’re part of the problem.
People are leaving Twitter and getting their accounts suspended by Twitter. It’s a shit hole. No wonder the Tweets are disappearing.
I told @BasedMikeLee to “cup the balls when he swallowed” on a tweet of him defending Trump.
He blocked me and got me suspended for a week.
Yeah, I remember back when I had Twitter, I said something like "your mom probably leaves your room every day and thinks ‘i should have swallowed’ in polish, under a Tweet calling women who died from lack of abortion sluts. He wasn’t suspended, but I was. Because apparently what I said is much worse than actively bulling people that lost life because of a shitty legislature and religious values.
Do we have the opposite of a suspension here? Like, an elevation or something? Because this post deserves it. You get a week of Kbin Gold, which doesn’t actually exist and would mean absolutely nothing if it did!
You can technically boost it, which works like a retweet on Twitter.
Not much, but it’s something! If you have Mastodon users following your Kbin profile, they’ll have the post pushed to their feeds as if you said it in the microblog tab (since Kbin can work as a Mastodon replacement).
I have been writing to my county school board to ask them to abandon twitter. It is used by principals, coaches, and others in the county system all the time. I explain that the values of the school system do not align with the values demonstrated by the platform. So far I’ve heard crickets back. :-(
Good on you though, keep it up
Elon is literally the embodiment of the enlightened centrist meme, always striking the balance between criticising the left and defending the right.
I’d laugh how his stupid ass doesn’t stand for anything but that’s not true. He’s just a bonafide fascism enabler.
Crazy takes, I know. But I’m new here. Let me speak up my mind.
And let’s be real, even if he was just a fascist enabler, rather than a fascist facilitator (which I think is more accurate), it would still be fair to just straight up call him a fascist.
If you are sitting at a table with 9 fascists, then you have a table with 10 fascists.
Catch and kill.
If you haven’t left Twitter before, now it’s a good time to do that. It’s not gonna get better. Abandon ship.
Of course, Musk wants it to be a far right playground so anything that goes against that will be removed, either as non-right-wing people no longer feel comfortable participating there or by moderator action.
Host your data yourself or accept the corporate risk
The war for content has stated and it takes many forms.
Elon knows his supporters it seems.
Maybe they’re just scrambling to delay the revolution by muting the voices of the revolutionaries because they they know who would be targeted first; them.
