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Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
tiotasram@kolektiva.social ("Tiota Sram") wrote:
@fromjason this is a good thread but I'd quibble with this post. They were suppressed by the algorithms for sure and thus not as influential, but all of these things did exist on Twitter. I learned tons about Indigenous history and current causes in North America and elsewhere, plus about police abolition and Black oppression in America from Twitter around 2012-2018.
I intentionally sought out those voices because of early Black Lives Matter discourse making me realize I wanted to hear from actual Black people about what was going on, and on Twitter it wasn't hard to do that.
I can definitely buy that TikTok let those voices go viral in ways that Twitter didn't, but I think saying they didn't exist is going too far.
Doesn't undermine your broader points though, which I agree with. Thanks for this thread.