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   Erik Moeller (eloquence@social.coop)'s status on Saturday, 04-Nov-2023 19:22:51 JST Erik Moeller

   • Eric A. Meyer
   • Downes 🍁
   • Alex Stamos
   • Distributed Denial of Secrets
   • Lex Friedman
   • emma best 🏳️‍🌈 🏴 Mx. Yzptlk
   • Neue d. Medienmacher*innen

   Some new additions to the eXit spreadsheet (https://bit.ly/eXit) -- notable accounts that have left X:

   - @NatSecGeek: journalist, co-founder of @ddosecrets

   - @Downes: philosopher, educator, online learning expert

   - @lexfri: writer and podcaster (not to be confused with Lex Fridman!)

   - @Meyerweb: web design expert, author

   - @alex: security and trust & safety; director of Stanford Internet Observatory

   - @ndmedienmacher: German nonprofit promoting diversity in media

   #FollowFriday

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     Erik Moeller (eloquence@social.coop)'s status on Saturday, 04-Nov-2023 19:22:49 JST Erik Moeller

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     Anecdotally at least, my impression is that the German eXit is very much underway -- Mastodon has long had strong adoption there (there's even a federal government instance, https://social.bund.de/ with many institutional accounts) and this seems to be accelerating. BlueSky seems to also be growing fast.

     Musk's tweet promoting the far-right and dehumanizing refugees did _not_ go over well in a country where much of civil society is working hard to prevent fascism from being resurrected.

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     Erik Moeller (eloquence@social.coop)'s status on Saturday, 04-Nov-2023 19:22:50 JST Erik Moeller

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     • Indivisible

     Honorable mention: @indivisibleteam - no full eXit yet, but dramatically reducing usage of their 260K follower account and removing it from their website and emails. Their post explaining the reasoning is worth a full read:

     https://indivisibleteam.medium.com/were-stepping-back-from-the-increasingly-dangerous-and-dysfunctional-x-and-we-re-sorry-it-s-a15524fab070

     I concur, of course, especially with this:

     "When trusted voices begin to leave the platform en-masse, X will lose its appeal, its pull as a source of real-time information, and its remaining legitimacy with policymakers and regular users."

     Børge repeated this.