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   Erik Moeller (eloquence@social.coop)'s status on Friday, 24-Jan-2025 15:01:53 JST Erik Moeller

   With Libération, The Guardian, and Le Monde all gone from X (and smaller publications following their leads), its relevancy for journalism in Europe is truly collapsing.

   Germany is for once lagging behind -- while many nonprofits, universities and public institutions in Germany have quit X, publications like Die Zeit, Der Spiegel, Sueddeutsche, etc. are all still happily posting to Musk's paltform.

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     Elena Rossini ⁂ (_elena@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 24-Jan-2025 15:01:49 JST Elena Rossini ⁂

     in reply to

     • ZDF :zdf:
     • 3sat :3sat:

     @eloquence @3sat @ZDF amazing news, I wasn’t aware of it. Bravissimi! 👏👏👏👏👏 (and thanks for sharing Erik)

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     Erik Moeller (eloquence@social.coop)'s status on Friday, 24-Jan-2025 15:01:51 JST Erik Moeller

     in reply to

     • ZDF :zdf:
     • 3sat :3sat:

     I should also give a shout-out to two German public broadcasters:

     @3sat and @ZDF

     Both quit X in March 2024 without fanfare; they've built their audience here on the fediverse on a dedicated instance. (Another German broadcaster, ARD, also has a dedicated instance but is still on X.)

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     Erik Moeller (eloquence@social.coop)'s status on Friday, 24-Jan-2025 15:01:52 JST Erik Moeller

     in reply to

     • taz
     • heise online
     • CORRECTIV

     Shout-out to German news orgs who _have_ made the departure from X:

     - @tazgetroete (684.5K followers on X)
     - @heiseonline (238K)
     - @correctiv_org (118.6K)

     (Also very cool to see two of these running their own instances.)

     Many more to go!

     Glyn Moody repeated this.
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     Elena Rossini ⁂ (_elena@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 27-Jan-2025 15:02:29 JST Elena Rossini ⁂

     in reply to

     • Jan Böhmermann ?
     • Sebastian Lasse
     • ZDF :zdf:
     • 3sat :3sat:

     @sl007 oooh thank you! I will check out the talk ASAP!

     @eloquence @janboehm @3sat @ZDF

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     Sebastian Lasse (sl007@digitalcourage.social)'s status on Monday, 27-Jan-2025 15:02:30 JST Sebastian Lasse

     in reply to

     • Jan Böhmermann ?
     • ZDF :zdf:
     • 3sat :3sat:
     • Elena Rossini ⁂

     @_elena @eloquence
     Much more important are the people who demanded it desperately :) And long before they knew what fedi is, people around @janboehm basically set up their instances.
     While Jan might be famous for being multiple times "Playboy Man of the year", he is also a good comedian :)

     PS
     We did a Talk at Public Spaces in 2024 https://digitalcourage.social/@sl007/112597533470606692

     @3sat @ZDF