German institutions depart X, a day after Musk's Weidel talk
German institutions depart X, a day after Musk's Weidel talk
More than 60 German and Austrian academic organizations say they will leave the messaging platform X owned by Elon Musk. The German government has also voiced fears that the platform is warping political discourse.
Summary
Over 60 German and Austrian universities and research institutions announced their exit from Elon Musk's X (formerly Twitter), citing the platform's promotion of right-wing populist content and its incompatibility with democratic and scientific values.
This follows Germany's Federal Court of Justice and trade unions leaving the platform.
The German government is also debating a withdrawal, expressing concerns over X’s polarizing effect on political discourse.
The departure comes after Musk’s public support for Germany's far-right AfD party and a live talk with its leader Alice Weidel ahead of upcoming elections.
Leave it and....
Leave it and....
block that steaming pile of garbage.
It's critical to make this asshat's soapbox irrelevant.
That’s a cartoon waiting to happen. Musk jumping up and down on his dilapidated soapbox, in the center of X plaza, surrounded only by his bots. It’s the glorious final stage of the echo chamber.
What the hell took them so fucking long. Anyone still using Xitter is a fascist enabler.
Well ain't that a sweeping generalization. Almost like it can't possibly be true...
Like: Vacation in SA = Support butchering of Journalists.
It's really that easy. Give money to evil people (on purpose knowingly)... support evil shit.
Consumersnhave some responsibility too. Everything else is deflection and: Mimimimi
Like Nestle... avoid their products, kill the company. "But I like Nesquick"... Alright, eat Nesquick kill some Chocolate Framers for it, but be aware what you do.
Please rest of the world - SHUN Musk and to whatever degree you can, also Trump, exactly like this. Their egos can't handle it, and your efforts to de-legitimize them both may be one of our most effective weapons to limit the damage they do.
Godammit, elon. All you had to do was be cool. Coast on that "visionary' crap and keep on winning life. But, no. You are just and asshole. Jerk.
Good fucking riddance. What took them so long?
Lazyness. Incompetence. Lack of know. Lack of Care.
The same shit everywhere.
Fukkin ban the website.
There’s already laws for it, just ban it.
We can also ban the far right AfD. The law allows it and almost everyone who knows enough about the German law supports it saying that it has good chances to be successful, but still nothing happens. It has been over one year since we got probably the biggest protests since the reunification of Germany, they happened after reports of members of the AfD being part of a meeting where they planned mass deportations, and no political party gave a damn about it.
It’s almost as if the financial elite doesn’t rally care about freedom and all that democracy bullshit.
Better late than never...
Leave Twitter and go where?
With this question unanswered, the sentiment is not very powerful.
Worse, if the answer is "go to Bluesky" or some other institution with a trust structure identical to Twitter, the sentiment is totally meaningless.
Their official server in the fediverse (https://social.bund.de/public/local) with currently 99 active government agencies and institutions.
That's just the federal level, by now every state should also have an instance, e.g. here's the SH one. Offers accounts to state ministries and agencies, municipalities, public and state-owned corporations and charitable/non-profit associations.
Then there's instances from public broadcasters, someone should make a list.
Nice. This is the way.
Leave Twitter and go where? - person commenting on fucking Lemmy of all places
The point is that they didn't give an alternative in the article. AP is obviously what I would recommend.
Mastodon, dude.
Bluesky is built on an open, decentralized protocol. There are appications that allow the AT protocol to federate with Mastodon, even. So yeah, move to Bluesky. Its not like Mastodon isn't also a private company.
Literally anyone could build apps on top of the AT protocol to create a parallel Fediverse to the ActivityPub protocol Fediverse. Best case scenario is we fold them in.
How about just quiting without replacing it with something else? Everyone desperately needs to stop using social media like a crack addict needs to stop doing crack. Shitter, FB, IG, TokTik, etc - it's all utter, utter shit.
Organisations use things like Twitter to broadcast news as push notifications to a large audience of subscribers. This is something that they're going to want to keep doing, and is only one aspect of social media. On its own, I don't see this ability as being damaging. They're basically just using Twitter as a more efficient mailing list. Things only get bad when opaque AIs start ranking shit and publishing to non-subscribers.
ActivityPub does provide a really good way to reproduce this ability. It is a good solution.
Bluesky is just another Twitter, subject to all of the same drawbacks. The only difference between the two of them is four years.
this is just like what mark zuckerberg said about all of europe having “too much censorship” and “making innovation impossible”. but i guess if germany really cared about being unbiased they would have moved all their institutions to texas by now or something.
Where is the censorship here?
uuhhhhhhh…. ummm….. there’s…. uhhhh….
I fear where they are going to go... they probably have a governmental Mastodon instance, but will go to Bluesky or Threads. They will have learned next to nothing from the experience, I bet.
Makes sense, since you know Musk can and will corrupt what you say on his platform.
https://youtu.be/TXlHKTPfLVA?si=mTjZ7t-3sosVLcgt
Reminds me of this scene.
