@alan @greenpartyni @martinvermeer Still though, it shouldn't take more than a couple of minutes to #LoseTheXLink off a web page.

Having said that, the best approach would be:

1. A final post on X, FB, etc to say goodbye and link to new fedi a/c and no further posts.
2. On your web page, prioritise links to NEW a/c, and change links to X, FB, etc to point at the "goodbye" post instead.
3. After a while, close the X, FB, etc accounts and remove the links off your web page.

@telescoper.blog

I emailed Mr. Ward:

Dear TD,

While I applaud your letter to Pat Ryan and I wholeheartedly support your efforts to hold the platform accountable, I must ask you to lead by example.

When I look up your contact information I see you still offer people the option to follow you on X - still showing the older Twitter icon.

While I appreciate that keeping a web page up to date may not seem high priority to you, in this case I would urge you to take it seriously and to get this reference removed from your contact information. If you are still operating an account on X, please close it. There can be no moral justification to maintain a presence on a platform so cavalier with its attitude to the right of people not to have their images used to produce pornographic or sexually suggestive material.

Please, also speak with your colleagues in Fine Gael and the other parties in the Dáil. Taking legal action against X and Grok is great, but walking away from the platform is the least you should do.

#LoseTheXLink #BarryWard

@everton137 @_elena @nopatience a week or so ago I checked the 14 Irish MEPs and found 7 of them on X. I sent them all an email to urge them to #LoseTheXLink and to consider Mastodon instead. NONE of them even bothered to respond, not even Luke Ming Flanagan who puts himself forward as a progressive candidate.

It's easy to ignore ONE email. What if they got thousands?

The green party of Ireland already made the move. Well done @greenparty_ie

#Ireland

@raycunningham Good. But don't forget.... I found a similar thing on the web site of a Dutch newspaper @volkskrant - they had actually left X over a year ago but they forgot to update their web site.

#LoseTheXLink

@claesdevreese FANTASTIC

Are Schiphol Airport on Mastodon? It would be nice to give them props for their decision to #LoseTheXLink

By the way I think this IS important and it's important to celebrate this. We're hoping for a snowball effect. Every time an account that is big enough to have a decent amount of followers leaves X and announces it, the momentum builds. Little by little at first. Until it reaches a tipping point.

Well done Schiphol. Let's keep up the pressure on everyone else.