The Free Software Foundation Europe deleted its account on X

I understand what you're saying, but people's continued participation "for the regular folk who aren't fascists" is just continuing to prop up a platform run by a Nazi and designed to prop up other fascists, bigots, and Conservative extremists. Furthermore, as Xitter is a for-profit, publicly traded company with a centralized power structure and proprietary software, everyone there is subject to the whims of those in charge.

One of the common reasons I hear from people staying is, "But my friends/community is there; I'd have to rebuild my follower base; That's the only place where insert celebrity posts." And so the people stay, and the companies stay, and the people stay, and on and on in a cycle; they hold their collective noses and try to pretend the fascism isn't really so bad. The surveillance capitalism isn't really so harmful.

Fuck that. Companies, organizations, and people who are interested in the public good are long past due for an exodus, and "regular folk" will only be emboldened to leave when bigger names like this do the hard work of leaving and rebuilding elsewhere.

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Personally, I think they should have stayed, to at least have presence somewhere potentially dry in open source discussion. (is it though? I seldom browse there as I hate its UX)
Still, now that it's done, and to save a click, their profiles as linked in the article: @fsfe@mastodon.social (Mastodon), !fsfe_media@media.fsfe.org (Peertube channel) & @fsfe@media.fsfe.org (Peertube user).
- I understand what you're saying, but people's continued participation "for the regular folk who aren't fascists" is just continuing to prop up a platform run by a Nazi and designed to prop up other fascists, bigots, and Conservative extremists. Furthermore, as Xitter is a for-profit, publicly traded company with a centralized power structure and proprietary software, everyone there is subject to the whims of those in charge.
  One of the common reasons I hear from people staying is, "But my friends/community is there; I'd have to rebuild my follower base; That's the only place where insert celebrity posts." And so the people stay, and the companies stay, and the people stay, and on and on in a cycle; they hold their collective noses and try to pretend the fascism isn't really so bad. The surveillance capitalism isn't really so harmful.
  Fuck that. Companies, organizations, and people who are interested in the public good are long past due for an exodus, and "regular folk" will only be emboldened to leave when bigger names like this do the hard work of leaving and rebuilding elsewhere.