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If you are staying on a corporate
social media platform because the people you follow are still there, consider others are also staying there because you are still there.

Someone needs to start the move.
Be that person.

Leave X for good.
Leave Facebook forever.
Remember blue skies eventually turn grey.

Embrace the social media that cannot get sold to a billionaire. Embrace the Fediverse 💚

#X #Facebook #Instagram #Threads #HelloQuitX #DeleteFacebook #DeleteTwitter #Mastodon #Fediverse


@peterhense und @spiritlegal schlagen wieder zu: Class Action gegen #X und #TikTok wegen #Desinformation, #AddictiveDesign und rechtswidrigem #Profiling. Man kann die Arbeit dieser Truppe nie genug hervorheben und wenn die Vorbereitungen abgeschlossen sind kann man sich der Klage auch noch anschließen.

https://www.spiritlegal.com/de/aktuelles/details/pressemitteilung-bewaehrungsprobe-fuer-dsa-dsgvo-und-ai-act.html


Why being on X for the sake of opposition is complete nonsense https://leavex.eu/posts/why-stay-on-social-media-makes-no-sense/

“The argument that you can’t leave platforms like X or TikTok because there would otherwise be a lack of “dissent” and “opposition” is untenable for several reasons—it’s simply complete bullshit. It is based on a false assumption about how these platforms work and what impact one’s presence there actually has.”

Great article by @kuketzblog, now in English!

#LeaveX #X #disinformation #USpol #Musk #TikTok


Nice. How to leave #X / #Twitter and #Instagram? In the edition of tomorrow‘s newspaper Augsburger Allgemeine offers valuable tips and highlights alternatives in the #Fediverse, such as #Mastodon and #Pixelfed.

A must-read especially for @Gargron from @Mastodon and @dansup from @PixelFed and of course @helpers / @admins

📖 Read more here in german language: https://www.augsburger-allgemeine.de/geld-leben/social-media-alternativen-bluesky-signal-co-neustart-ohne-x-und-meta-104511246

#SocialMedia #Privacy #Alternatives #Mastodon #Pixelfed #Fediverse


Nice. How to leave #X / #Twitter and #Instagram? In the edition of tomorrow‘s newspaper Augsburger Allgemeine offers valuable tips and highlights alternatives in the #Fediverse, such as #Mastodon and #Pixelfed. A must-read especially for @Gargron from @Mastodon and @dansup from @PixelFed and of course @helpers / @admins

📖 Read more here in german language: https://www.augsburger-allgemeine.de/geld-leben/social-media-alternativen-bluesky-signal-co-neustart-ohne-x-und-meta-104511246

#SocialMedia #Privacy #Alternatives #Mastodon #Pixelfed #Fediverse


Dutzende Forschungseinrichtungen verlassen Plattform X

Die FU Berlin, die Uni Münster, die RWTH Aachen und Dutzende andere der wichtigsten und größten Hochschulen Deutschlands ziehen sich von X zurück. Sie protestieren damit gegen die zunehmenden Radikalisierung des Diskurses auf der Plattform.

➡️ https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/hochschulen-forscher-verlassen-x-100.html?at_medium=mastodon&at_campaign=tagesschau.de

#X #Hochschulen #ElonMusk


Neulich habe ich mit @JanaBallweber über die Aktivitäten von @heiseonline auf #Mastodon gesprochen und jetzt gibt's den daraus entstandenen Artikel u.a. bei #Meedia:

https://meedia.de/news/beitrag/18253-heise-online-verlaesst-quot-x-quot-und-setzt-auf-mastodon.html

Der Abschied von #X ist jetzt nur der Aufhänger, den hatten wir da noch gar nicht vollzogen.

#SocialMedia #eXit #Xodus #Fediverse #MastodonMigration #TwitterExodus


... to those moving from Mastodon to BlueShit - you crazy naive quacks! Wasn't getting burned on X enough?

#Fediverse #x #bluesky #mastodon


Das ​:fediverse:​ in der New York Times 😮👇🏼

You may have noticed that a whole bunch of new social media platforms have popped up in the past few years with names like #Mastodon, #Threads and #Bluesky. These may look like #X on the surface, but under the hood they are wholly different beasts than the #SocialMedia platforms we grew up on. They are part of a movement called the #Fediverse, which some sources say derives its name from “federation” and “universe.”

It’s early days for the fediverse — which has around 200 million users collectively compared with the billions on #Facebook and X — although Bluesky is growing fast, more than doubling in the past 90 days to over 15 million users. The goals of the fediverse are simple: to allow you to post to all the social media platforms from a single account.


[...]

It’s not a silver bullet for truth — plenty of people will still fall for lies and misleading content. But by seizing control of our social media environment, we can give the truth a chance.


(🎁) How the Right Triumphed Over Social Media and Helped Elect Trump https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/20/opinion/trump-musk-social-media.html?unlocked_article_code=1.bU4.gvsV.fnsVug_VHxPO #ElonMusk #Twitter #eXit #Xodus


Heute treffen sich die Mitglieder der Hochschulrektor*innenkonferenz in Tübingen. Eine gute Gelegenheit sie daran zu erinnern:

⚡ ⚠️ Hochschulen und Kommunikation auf #X – das passt nicht zusammen!
💜 👩🏽‍🎓 Wissenschaftskommunikation und Mastodon – it's a match!

Gemeinsam mit dem @neuSoM haben wir ein Tutorial erarbeitet, das Hochschulen zeigt, wie man den Wechsel zu Mastodon erfolgreich hinbekommt..

https://tubcloud.tu-berlin.de/s/37Z3Cp5d2W3jpyx

#Fediverse #Hochschulen


⬆️ @briankrebs

>> So just how integrated is X these days with TikTok?

On the path from
#TikTok >
TiXToX >
ToXic >
#X.

When just like #Twitter's husk, that's all that remains.


Mastodon is benefitting from the #X exodus (eXodus?) too: The official app downloads are up 47% on iOS and 17% on Android. Sign-ups are up approx. 27% compared to previous month with about 90K new accounts, while the MAU has jumped to 894K (across all Mastodon servers).
#x


It's funny to see people leaving #X to join #bluesky or #threads. They're all billionaire driven spyware, manipulative, toxic spaces.
I mentioned them yesterday during my keynote speech "Quo vadis, Free Software (quo vadis, society" at #FOSSCOMM2024 in Greece.
#Freedom #privacy


As more people are abandoning X, again, perhaps my short introduction to Mastodon might be of use, if you'd like to share it with your friends?

https://stefanbohacek.com/blog/how-to-join-mastodon/

#mastodon #fediverse #SocialMedia #X #twitter


Exactly two years ago, we started to post links on #Mastodon via our account @heiseonline 👇

https://mastodon.social/@heiseonline/109314036284496776

It took longer, than I expected, but here we are: it seems like this account now brings continuously more #traffic to heise.de than #X (#Twitter) in its entirety, although it only has ¼ of the follower number (and many of them don't seem to be active anymore).
I'll prepare some graphs after the weekend.

#SocialMedia
#TwitterExodus
#MastodonMigration
#TwitterMigration
#Fediverse


"A platform that used to downgrade hoaxes, conspiracy theories and false claims has become one where even the boss now spreads the stuff. That change didn’t happen immediately, but the shift of X from a useful information source to a locus of misinformation has alarmed fact-checkers worldwide."

(via @Poynter)

https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/2024/how-elon-musk-twitter-takeover-accelerated-misinformation/

#twitter #x #disinformation #verification


I've seen some other numbers that indicated more Brazilians coming here. But the bubble I used to interact in Brazil when I lived there, some (data) journalists, access to information and even some open source and data privacy folks, seem pretty active on Bluesky. That's the main reason of my disappointment.

I am glad the new director of the organization I founded 11 years ago, @okbr, has decided also to create a profile in the fediverse. I hope they will be active and not only replicate content.

I don't live in Brazil for more than 8 years, so I am afraid to have strong opinions, and I am now just a foreigner (still an immigrant latino) living in the comfort of Europe. @josemurilo might have a better understanding of the reasons behind most people in Brazil have migrated from x to Bluesky.

#fediverse #Brazil #X #BlueSky


#WompWomp

“A Brazilian Supreme Court panel has upheld the decision of one of its justices to block billionaire Elon #Musk’s social media platform #X nationwide, according to the court’s website.

The broader support among justices deals a blow to Musk and his supporters…” #Brazil https://apnews.com/article/6942614705a4e85064f1d98628b49295


“Come to #mastodon! I am shadow banned on mastodon social because criticsm of Israel is censored exactly like on #X/ #Twitter!” Sending now…
https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/113063493237838349


Please remember that Mastodon doesn't have a marketing team or budget. Whatever media coverage Mastodon gets is from inbound interest from journalists. The growth of the platform has been predominantly through word of mouth. If you want the fediverse to grow, tell your friends.


Also ist #Bluesky nach dem Einzug der Bürger Brasiliens der „Hot Shit“ der #SocialNetworks oder wie? Gibt es Zahlen zum Zuwachs im #Fediverse nach dem #Ban von #X #Twitter in #Brasilien ? #GoodByeTwitter


Via NetBlocks:
⚠️ Confirmed: Metrics show #Brazil's leading ISPs are now enforcing the Supreme Court's order to ban #X (formerly #Twitter); the order follows X's refusal to censor accounts associated with the previous administration and political right, and its refusal to appoint a representative


"Ebenso notwendig wäre es, dass Bundesregierung und Europäische Union sich endlich alternativen Plattformen für ihre Kurznachrichten-Kommunikation suchen und X nicht weiter füttern." Absolut richtig von @eskensaskia ! Und as schöne, die neue Infrastruktur gibt es schon mit Bund.social, spd.social,... Mein Vorschlag also, nicht auf Gesetze warten die "die Daumenschrauben" anziehen sondern einfach das richtige machen. https://www.zeit.de/news/2024-07/27/esken-bundesregierung-sollte-x-nicht-weiter-fuettern #Bundesregierung #spd #fediverse #x