Erik MoellerNov 11, 2023

The German eXit from Musk's hate platform is real and ongoing.

I'm seeing accounts for newspapers, courts, libraries, radio stations, cities, nonprofits, etc. getting shut down permanently or moved into maintenance mode. This is all very organic, e.g., the city of Cologne had a vote on withdrawal from X:

https://ratsinformation.stadt-koeln.de/getfile.asp?id=956920&type=do

I can barely keep up. Many of these accounts are now on the fediverse. The ones I've tracked so far are in the eXit spreadsheet:

https://bit.ly/eXit

Show threadRixt Lothein
@eloquence Is anybody going to tell the #dutchgovernment to do the same, please?!
Nov 12, 2023 at 11:39amWeb
Show threadErik MoellerNov 12, 2023

@Truucoo

It could be you. ;-) To their credit, they're one of two governments I know of (Germany and Netherlands) with official Mastodon servers (https://social.overheid.nl/), alongside the EU's Mastodon server.

social.overheid.nl - Mastodon Overheid

Berichten van de overheid. Voor iedereen.

Mastodon hosted on social.overheid.nl
Show threadRixt LotheinNov 12, 2023
@eloquence That may be true, but many indivual members of #parlement are #X-ing themselves to death.
Show threadErik MoellerNov 12, 2023

@Truucoo

There are two groups everywhere who are still addicted to X: journalists and politicians. What they have in common is a belief that they need to be "where the people are", so they're slow to move.

So far I've found two Dutch politicians who've left X -- Senna Maatoug and Lisa van Ginneken. If you find others, please let me know!