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Jun 12, 2023 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
As of just now, AskHistorians has taken its forums offline to protest @Reddit's policies regarding API and third-party developers.
You may well be thinking: why has such a dry-sounding issue managed to spark one of the largest user revolts in social media history?
Well... 🧵
Fortunately - as always - there's a relevant xkcd comic!
Reddit is perhaps unique among major social media sites in that much of its basic functionality is the product of third-party efforts. The native infrastructure has never been fit for purpose.
Jul 18, 2018 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
Holocaust denial is not a “mistake”, Mr. Zuckerberg. It has a clear purpose: negate, distort, minimize, and trivialize proven facts about the Nazi genocides against Jews, Roma, and others. The goal is to rehabilitate the racist, antisemitic, xenophobic ideology of Nazism. [1/8]
In order to remove the political taint from Nazism they argue: (1) The Holocaust didn’t happen (2) The Holocaust happened but not that many Jews were murdered (3) The Holocaust happened but Hitler didn’t do it (4) The evidence was made up by Jews. These CAN'T go together. [2/8]
