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Noch einmal zu #RIPTwitter: Männer wie Musk, Zuckerberg & Co werden die Regeln bestimmen, wer Zugang zum Diskurs hat und ihre Auffassung von Meinungsfreiheit und Freiheit im Allgemeinen durchsetzen.

Nationale Gesetze oder EU-Richtlinien werden jedes Mal aufs Neue durch Lobbyeinflüsse durchlöchert.

Jede demokratische Wahl wird zum Test, weil TikTok, Meta oder jetzt Twitter ihre eigenen Regeln haben.

Denen geht es nicht um Demokratie und Freiheit, sondern Daten, Überwachung, Geld und Macht.

Many scholars are leaving Twitter for #Mastodon, a public, decentralized alternative, impervious to private take-over:

https://www.science.org/content/article/musk-reshapes-twitter-academics-ponder-taking-flight

Scholarly organizations are already supporting this migration:

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00486-3

and

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7643817

There are analogous solutions for another public good in private hands: journals. There are even levers the scholarly community could pull to incentivize an analogous migration:

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5526634

What are we waiting for?

As Musk reshapes Twitter, academics ponder taking flight

Many researchers are setting up profiles on social media site Mastodon

I take a couple issues with this, but overall, it was really well done. 😆

https://geoff.greer.fm/2023/02/08/gasoline-car-review/

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