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Back in 2010 #twitter launched their โt.coโ link shortened. And I thought at the time how profoundly terrible that is. If the database and/or ability to look up t.co links ever changed, we would literally lose information. We will no longer know what URL was tweeted. It burns a huge hunk of internet history to the ground if we lose that. It was vain and shortsighted and stupid. Now in 2022, I wonder how many months we have left when we can resolve those links. And what happens to collective internet history when theyโre done?
In another funny twist, what about trials or legal matters that hinge on the content of a tweet? And suddenly you canโt get the content of that tweet? Or where did that link point to?
Nobody saw this coming except for all of us who saw this coming.
Yesterday I tweeted out a question about whether or not there was anyone left at Twitter who remembered that the company was under a pretty strict FTC consent decree: Apparently the answer was yes,โฆ
no algorithm to game here - huge plus.
one aspect: fake accounts are less likely to gain traction. fake accounts are bad anywhere but not amplifying them drastically limits damage.
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Use CWs pls.
But if I choose not CW a post about racism or misogyny, don't police me about it either
I said that in 2019
And it seems to me that new users to #blacktwitter or #Blackmastodon think that they have to do that. You don't
If you're concerning about fellow Blk folks mental health and wanna CW I get that. Do it. But don't hide for white fragility. Forget that