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
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:
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."
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.
And our PM Sunak sits down with musk to discuss the future of AI and how to protect people.
