"How much of that is #fandom? At this point, all I can estimate is "somewhere around 300,000?" It is really impossible to know yet. I finished working on the metadata and will be uploading it soon, and sometime next spring (I hope!) we might begin on the more finely-detailed analysis that would let us identify individual fandoms and all of that."

#YahooGroups

3/n

In 2019, #verizon shut down #YahooGroups. While the #ArchiveTeam focused on saving as many groups across the board, #transformative #fandom took on the task of saving our communities.

A new Yahoo Groups #Dreamwidth community has been started where you can keep up with the progress of the Yahoo Gedden Rescue Team as they process and add metadata to the (gulp) million they groups saved

https://yahoogroups.dreamwidth.org/

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@annaleen #YahooGroups , #MySpace , #Facebook , #Twitter , all failed ideas, people will use better means to communicate. The Internet is still a work-in-progress.

"How much of that is #fandom? At this point, all I can estimate is "somewhere around 300,000?" It is really impossible to know yet. I finished working on the metadata and will be uploading it soon, and sometime next spring (I hope!) we might begin on the more finely-detailed analysis that would let us identify individual fandoms and all of that."

#YahooGroups

3/n

In 2019, #verizon shut down #YahooGroups. While the #ArchiveTeam focused on saving as many groups across the board, #transformative #fandom took on the task of saving our communities.

A new Yahoo Groups #Dreamwidth community has been started where you can keep up with the progress of the Yahoo Gedden Rescue Team as they process and add metadata to the (gulp) million they groups saved

https://yahoogroups.dreamwidth.org/

1/n

yo its the countdown hours to get your #YahooGroups data before they delete it all. just finally got mine all downloaded.

#personalarchive

*some military-grade euphemisms here* (final notification)

#yahoogroups