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.
Tobias@jburnford That is very interesting.
I also thought about similar things, in particular regarding a lot of mastodon instances whose users *really* don't want their posts to be (a) searchable nor (b) archived.
It seems parts of the fediverse (that Threads more or less is/wants to be/... part of) consider it a kind-of semi-private party that is not to be looked at by strangers.
That sure seems like truly hampering historic studys.