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.
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 too neither.
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.
I don’t think that, nor did I say it. I’m just saying these initiatives are faddy, and fads aren’t made to last. Also, they’re easy to attack from the opposing side.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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. :-(
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).
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.
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