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 threadqwazix

It makes me happy to see that most move to the fedi, and it also makes me a little sad because it's fast becoming something more than "my corner of the internet".

Being in a well guarded instance staves the twitterification of my timeline off a little, but I see more and more posts that resemble the twitter culture.

Anyway, just venting here, don't take it too seriously, I know it's a net good.

(re @eloquence's post about the twitter/X exit)

Nov 13, 2023 at 1:23pmWeb
Show threadBenjamin Kwiecień 🇵🇸Nov 13, 2023
@qwazix @eloquence don't worry; there will always be something more obscure out there