Fediverse @lemmy.world Sunshine (she/her) @lemmy.ca 5d ago

European institutions are leaving in droves.

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European institutions are leaving in droves. 4 European universities no longer on X. Université Paris Cité @upcite.bsky.social (32.7K*) Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam @vuamsterdam.bsky.social (55.4K*) UvA Amsterdam @uva.nl (43.9K*) Wageningen U&R @w-u-r.bsky.social (45.7K*) * followers on X

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If only it were to mastodon. Though baby steps, i guess
- Or, hear me out, whatever happened to just hosting your own fucking website and RSS stream? Not everything needs to an opportunity for a random Joe to drop his two cents in.
  
  I agree. European institutions should have social presence, but most of the time that leads to random crazy people commenting under official posts.
  
  They already have websites. And social media is much more accessible than an RSS feed
- The way I see it, the most important thing right now is breaking up the biggest platforms. The biggest advantage that places like Facebook, Twitter and TikTok have right now is the network effect from having a fuck ton of users. But in a more fractured social media landscape, the tools that are the most open and federated will eventually come out on top.
  
  Absolutely. as i said; baby steps :)
  
  We'll be more on equal grounds of opportunity if the market share is split evenly
A pity they go again for the same type of platform. It's just a matter of time until the profit maximization monster strikes there too :/
- Maybe now would be the right time to lobby this organization. The impact of Twitter may have brought us Trump and all the destruction which will follow. We can't affort this once more.
- Networking effect for you
Do Facebook next
Aww i thought you meant they were leaving bluesky in droves :(

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