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#BlackLivesMatter tweets vanishing 10 years after hashtag started

35% of #BlackLivesMatter tweets created between 2013 and 2021 are no longer available on Twitter, report finds. #blm #black #lives #matter #politics

https://www.axios.com/2023/06/29/blacklivesmatter-tweets-vanishing-twitter?ref=upstract.com

#BlackLivesMatter tweets vanishing

35% of #BlackLivesMatter tweets created between 2013 and 2021 are no longer available on Twitter, report finds.

Axios
Jun 30, 2023 at 2:19amWeb
Show threadTinyPizzaJun 30, 2023
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.
Show threadborkcorkedforksJun 30, 2023

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.

Show threadDeceptichumJun 30, 2023

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 there energy elsewhere.

Show threadDreamyDolphinJun 30, 2023

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).

Semi-relevant xkcd

Digital Data

xkcd
Show threadexohumanJun 30, 2023
People are leaving Twitter and getting their accounts suspended by Twitter. It’s a shit hole. No wonder the Tweets are disappearing.
Show threadjeromeJun 30, 2023

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.

Show threadArugulaZJun 30, 2023
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!
Show threadEnglishMobsterJun 30, 2023

You can technically boost it, which works like a retweet on Twitter.

Not much, but it's something!

Show threadnaughtynumbernineJun 30, 2023
Catch and kill.
Show threadArugulaZJun 30, 2023
Elon, you disgusting piece of trash. You're not living in Apartheid-era South Africa anymore.
Show threadJaysynJun 30, 2023
If you're still on Twitter, you're part of the problem.
Show threadkillickJun 30, 2023
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. :-(
Show threadpgm_01Jun 30, 2023
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.
Show threadszczurJun 30, 2023

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.

Show threadszczurJun 30, 2023
If you haven't left Twitter before, now it's a good time to do that. It's not gonna get better. Abandon ship.
Show threadPabloDiscobarJun 30, 2023

Host your data yourself or accept the corporate risk

The war for content has stated and it takes many forms.

Show threadxc2215xJun 30, 2023
Elon knows his supporters it seems.
Show threadQuexoticJun 30, 2023
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.