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Erik Moeller Nov 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

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Ch M[ae][iy]e?r 🇪🇺 🤍 🇬🇱Nov 12, 2023

@eloquence
Why do you use bit.ly to hide the real URL?
I never had clicked on it, when I knew this one is leading to Google docs.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1p5crRGK0Y9MuFsfkyOBEC--3wXxFTd71fPCUcIFPXK0/htmlview#gid=0

bit.ly/eXit — Organizations and individuals who have left X (and where they've gone) - Google Drive

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Erik Moeller Nov 12, 2023

@chbmeyer

The only point is to offer a URL that people can easily remember, something that sticks in your brain so you can easily recall it later without having to dig in your browser history.

(Edit: I've also found it useful when switching devices, because it's quick to type.)

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katzenberger Nov 12, 2023

@eloquence

Good to see such a list, but please do not use link shorteners here. Probably not your intent to camouflage a link to Google Docs, still an unpleasant surprise.
@chbmeyer

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Erik Moeller

@katzenberger

As I mentioned in the thread, I mostly disagree -- I use shorteners to offer easy mnemonics that work across devices and that are useful for folks who may not be very versatile at fishing things out of their browser history.

I do hear you on the "surprising link target" concern. I've sometimes offered both links alongside each other for that reason. At minimum, I'll put "(GDoc)" or similar in parentheses next to it.