It occasionally helps to get the vandals arrested. Doesn't seem to be deterring the vandalism though, which is what I care about. I want to be able to go about my life without having to worry about coming back to a graffitied/damaged car.
The problem is that the provenance of that data will be questioned. It’s one thing that researchers will trust and use that data, but that citing these archive sites will fall flat when their conclusions have to exit academia and be subject to extra scrutiny.
protesters deal with various agencies from private security, city police on up to federal FBI etc. These measures will help in the most common scenarios and prevent further escalation. 99.999% of protestors are not going against NSA counter-intel teams, they are encountering low-level private security or police who escalate the situation.
Every security practice is a risk/reward. The measures being offered here are no-cost measures which can reduce the exposure of evidence to casual security / police.
But at some point they will have to interact with people outside the hermetic filter bubble(s) of BlueSky - even if it relates more to the results and byproducts as opposed to the raw research.
How is it Bluesky a "hermetic filter bubble?" I'm not aware that anyone only interacts with people on Bluesky, nor do I see any indication from the article that this is the case.
Choosing not to interact with Twitter is not equivalent to sealing oneself away from the world.
Bluesky as a whole isn't a hermetic filter bubble, but most people on it set up blocklists so they never have to see anyone with opinions they disagree with.
A full day seems like a pretty reasonable timeframe for something big to spread on social media (I'm not even gonna touch however you're trying to connect this to BLM). Reddit mods are probably literally some of the most "online" people imaginable so once something is on the front page in one or two major subreddit they are gonna be aware within a couple hours, idk why anyone would think this would need even 24 hours to spread
I think you’re looking for a conspiracy that’s just not there.
It’s just people seeing an idea and jumping on the bandwagon. Plus, if you look at lots of the threads, there are already a pent-up dissatisfaction with the user experience of links to X, so the door was partly open.
