Our movement was born online and it grew thanks to the reach that Twitter afforded us.
But the Twitter we knew is largely gone. Today's dangerous cesspool of hate and disinformation is bad for progressive organizing, so we've decided to step back from "X." https://indivisibleteam.medium.com/were-stepping-back-from-the-increasingly-dangerous-and-dysfunctional-x-and-we-re-sorry-it-s-a15524fab070
@indivisibleteam welcome! I'm glad you all joined, you're doing great work.
I've done a bit of activism through y'all here in Colorado. I'm finding it easier for me to stay engaged in politics in a productive way here than on FKA Twitter where it's easier to just doom spiral or be a cog in the outrage machine.
Organizing and mobilizing via the Fediverse is still unchartered territory in a lot of ways. Looking forward to seeing how y'all use this space to further peace and justice. ❤️
"Indivisible as a movement was born online. In 2016, our founders wrote a Google Doc on how to resist Trump’s fascist agenda and posted it on Twitter. There, it was shared by prominent progressive activists, enabling it to reach millions of people. Indivisible groups began popping up organically all over the country, and were able to grow and mobilize thanks in no small part to the reach that Twitter afforded them.
The Twitter we knew — which, despite its many problems over the years, allowed us to build this community and fight for a better world — is now largely gone. The platform has become a megaphone for a bigoted and conspiratorial billionaire, propped up by a subscription scheme that amplifies the voices of transphobes and white nationalists who agree with him and muzzles his critics.
Since purchasing Twitter/X, Musk has uplifted accounts that target LGBTQ+ people for harassment, spread transphobia and antisemitism, re-verified violent white supremacists, and dabbled with dangerous ‘Great Replacement’ rhetoric.
Musk’s outburst scapegoating Jews for the decline of X in September was an inflection point, accelerating internal discussions about our continued participation in a platform that not only allows such hate speech, but rewards it, amplifies it, issues it from its C-suite.
We didn’t like the message it sent — to the communities targeted by Musk and his minions or to the bigots celebrating his mainstreaming of hate — to continue on as normal. X is no longer a normal platform."
The very best thing you can do next is to verify your account with your website.
This commitment to greatly reduced activity on X is really great to hear!
One suggestion -- among the emerging platforms you identify, the fediverse is unique in enabling organizations to achieve a measure of true sovereignty. You could set up your own server here, and make it easy for partners or sub-groups to get accounts.
I'm not suggesting doing so at the expense of being active on BlueSky or Threads, but it could be an experiment worth undertaking :)
Just as an example for this kind of model, see the German server https://bewegung.social/ ("movement") set up by @digitalcourage -- it's now home to several civil society organizations like Attac, Lobbycontrol, Abgeordnetenwatch, etc.
@indivisibleteam Welcome to Mastodon! Please remember to verify your website URL so we really know it’s you. One of many tutorials: https://opensource.com/article/22/11/verified-mastodon-website
Thank you.
"The platform has become a megaphone for a bigoted and conspiratorial billionaire"
Yes and you participated in pushing that platform forward.
Wasn't Twitter&Co extremely problematic since day 1 for all kinds of 'serious' things, exactly why it was always a corporate silo, with exactly that danger?
Even more: Wasn't it obvious that it will explode if you pump it up with more and more power? Have you ever interacted with ppl before?
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Welcome to Mastodon guys! We are absolutely DELIGHTED to have you!!
There's no algorithm on here so please use hashtags where you can to make your posts findable for those instances who don't have full text search (yet).
Welcome, welcome, welcome!
Yep, I saw. :) They also have tweeted "We will continue to amplify our groups and partners. We’re not deleting our account or ceding this space." - so not quite adding them to the list yet, but will give them an honorable mention in my next shoutouts!
@indivisibleteam
Hurray!
Thank you for abandoning the hellsite and welcome!
Bring your content here, and other safe sites. Rebuild the social network without centralised tech bro control.
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