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

  • DreamyDolphin@kbin.social
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    8
    ·
    1 year ago

    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

    • ArugulaZ@kbin.social
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      2
      ·
      1 year ago

      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?

      • DreamyDolphin@kbin.social
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        1 year ago

        Oops, good catch - “link rot” was the term I was thinking of, should have wiki’d it before so confidently posting.