Jim CliffordReasons for historians to be concerned about Threads winning and killing Twitter: Twitter provides access for the Internet Archive and allowed my project full access to download up to 10 million Tweets a month related to COVID and Saskatchewan. Facebook and Instagram block the Internet Archive and don’t provide access to academics. Twitter owned by Musk is terrible and not currently providing access for new Academic projects, but Meta is also really bad for archiving.
EcoEcclesia@jburnford I fear good social media falling into the hands of either existing billionaires, or those who social media make into billionaires, is a death knell for those social media. Ie. Twitter under Musk, or FB/Meta as it has become under Zuckerberg. In 2013 , I was hopeful and excited about the Facebook we had them. Now, that original vision and continued creativity has stopped in its tracks with regard to social media tech and ecosystem.