Platform Shutdowns

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Google+: the fate of interest communities built inside a corporate experiment | Dead Internet Theory

Dead Internet Theory: How photographers, hobbyists, and niche fandoms found real communities inside Google+, and what the 2019 shutdown required them to move — and leave behind.

Community rescue downloads during a platform's closing window | Dead Internet Theory

Dead Internet Theory: When a platform announces a shutdown, volunteers may have only weeks or months to decide what to copy, how to crawl it, and what losses they have to accept.