indeed, there are some official Mastodon instances in Germany. But several politicians continue to use X as their main and official communication channel. That's one of the main motivations to write An Open Letter to All European Politicians and Leaders to Abandon X/Twitter

https://leavex.eu/

It's possible to sign a petition to support it

https://openpetition.eu/leavex

#LeaveX #Germany #democracy #x #mastodon

58 of the 60 Democrats in the California Assembly are leaving X (…) office said Democrats will continue to share information on other social media platforms, including Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and TikTok.

(LA Times 2025-03-27)

#LeaveX #eXit #EscapeX - how about other #Democrats in the US or elsewhere ?

Note the emphasis on _leave_ and no mention of destinations they'd _join_.

After 3 months that I have created an open letter trying to persuade politicians to leave X, I have just noticed a very interesting number. In 10 days, the petition that endorses the letter got more than 1500 signatures. From that day in, that is more than 80 days, there were less than 1000 new signatures. We have less than 2400 signatures at the moment: https://openpetition.eu/leavex

There were two people with several followers here on the Fediverse sharing the petition right after it was started, @randahl and @eloquence . I wonder if that's the reason there were so many signatures in a few days, then it faded out. Or maybe there is some network effect when it comes to online petitions.

I still believe that politics is done face to face. Unfortunately, I haven't found an organization to take over the petition, which would make it easier to gather signatures on the streets. I've talked to a few, and I'll keep trying.

#leavex #petition #networking #x #nonprofit #civilsociety #NGO

Die #Steuer in der #EU muss dringendst überarbeitet werden. Es kann nicht sein, dass #google #ebay #amazon und co. irgendwo in der EU in einem Land fast keine Steuern zahlen und ein Selbstständiger hier in #deutschland 30% auf #gewinn zahlen muss.
Es sollen da, wo Geschäfte gemacht werden auch Steuern gezahlt werden.
#steuerreform #leaveamazon #leavegoogle #leavefacebook #leaveinstagram #leavex #EuropeanFederation #oneEurope #450millionen

Demokratie schützen, Gemeinwohl fördern: Online-Plattformen brauchen Kontrolle
https://bits-und-baeume.org/posts/demokratie-schuetzen-gemeinwohl-foerdern/

#demokratie #deutschland #socialmedia #x #musk #cdu #spd #leavex #fediverse #npa145

'Hate speech is everywhere on X.' California Assembly Democrats leave platform en masse
https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2025-03-27/hate-speech-is-everywhere-on-x-california-assembly-democrats-leave-elon-musks-platform-en-masse

#LeaveX #USPol #X #democrats #EscapeX #eXit #hatespeech

Wer jetzt noch bei X bleibt, dem ist nicht mehr zu helfen!

Da #Musk die Lästerplattform #X nun an seine Tochterfirma #XAI per Aktiendeal verscherbelt hat, werden die Nutzerdaten nun komplett als Datenbasis seiner KI-Maschine genutzt.

Wie lange bleiben Politiker der #EU und aus #Deutschland, die sich oft so kritisch über die neue Regierung der #USA äußern, noch auf X?! Jetzt ist es wirklich fahrlässig, noch dort zu bleiben.

https://www.tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/unternehmen/musk-x-uebernahme-100.html

#leavex #unplugtrump #datenschutz #ki #ai

Wer
jetzt noch bei X bleibt ist nicht mehr zu retten.
#leavex #musk #elonmusk #datenschutz #exploration #datamining #X #tech #socialmedia

#freespeech
for #oligarchs only.
Ich sag nur #leavex #leaveinstagram #leavemicrosoft #leavemeta #leavefacebook #leaveamazon #leavewhatsapp <= sehr bald. Ich arbeite daran.
Wer ausser mir ist auch schon draussen?

Ein offener Brief an alle europäischen Politiker und Führungskräfte zur Abkehr von X/Twitter https://leavex.eu/de/

Unterstützen Sie dieses Schreiben, indem Sie die Petition unterzeichnen und sich an die Politiker wenden https://openpetition.eu/leavex

Cc @vgrass @digiges @digitalcourage @eloquence @bjoernsta @bjoernsta @alineblankertz @n0r6erta
#LeaveX #EscapeX

#Twitter ?
#leavex

Meet Everyone Hates Elon, the Campaigners Attempting to Take Down Musk
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/everyone-hates-elon-musk-x-donald-trump-protest-politics-campaign-viral-1236149106/

#Musk #leavex #EscapeX #UK

There seems to be a consensus among reasonable people* that we shouldn't give a stage to fascists. What surprises me is that few people have realized that you shouldn't be on a fascist's stage, no matter how many cool people follow or listen to you.

It's a political act to draw attention away from the disinformation tools used to push a far-right agenda. Afraid of losing your precious connections? Tell them where you're going, and those who matter will follow.

* No, those who make decisions in the mainstream media are obviously not among the reasonable.

#LeaveX #eXodus #eXit #EscapeX #X #fascism #farright #disinformation #journalism #media

#LeaveX #nazi #farright #EscapeX #Musk #eXit

🐘 Good news gefällig? Auf der größten Konferenz der deutschsprachigen Bibliothekscommunity wird es dieses Jahr erstmals einen Einführungsworkshop ins #Fediverse mit Schwerpunkt #Mastodon geben 🎉 https://bid2025.abstractserver.com/program/#/details/sessions/184

6 Jahre nachdem @rstockm dort mit seiner Präsentation zum Launch der openbiblio.social Instanz die Initialzündung zur Erkundung des Fediverse für alle #Bibliotheken und #Bibliothekswesen gegeben hat, ist eine von zentralen Akteuren und Kommerzialisierung unabhängige #SocialMedia Alternative heute notwendiger denn je. Umso mehr freue ich mich über die Gelegenheit, diesen Workshop geben zu dürfen. All die engagierten Kampagnen und Petitionen der letzten Zeit wie #UnisInsFediverse #SaveSocial #WissXit #FediGov #ByeByeElon #LeaveX #EscapeX werde ich natürlich nicht unerwähnt lassen. Damit vielleicht auch bald deine Bibliothek im Fediverse zu finden ist und mehr Menschen geholfen wird, auch hier anzukommen 😙
#BiblioCon25

"This study examines whether German X users would see politically balanced news feeds if they followed comparable leading politicians from each federal parliamentary party of Germany. We address this question using an algorithmic audit tool and all publicly available posts published by 436 German politicians on X. We find that the default feed of X showed more content from far-right AfD than from other political parties."

https://zenodo.org/records/14894900

(our emphasis)

#noAfD #eXit #leaveX #Wahlbeeinflussung #Musk

Espagne, Royaume-Uni, Allemagne, Italie, France… Plusieurs initiatives à travers l’Europe ont uni leurs forces pour lancer la campagne #EscapeX

Au-delà de la simple désertion d’une plateforme, elle propose de reconstruire un espace numérique démocratique https://snjcgt.fr/2025/02/19/campagne-internationale-escapex-ameliorer-lespace-public-numerique/

#HelloQuitteX #SciXit #LeaveX #VamonosJuntas

this great article also in English, Portuguese, French, Spanish and Italian:

https://leavex.eu/posts/why-stay-on-social-media-makes-no-sense/

https://leavex.eu/pt-pt/posts/por-que-permanecer-nas-midias-sociais-nao-faz-sentido/

https://leavex.eu/fr/posts/pourquoi-rester-sur-les-medias-sociaux-na-pas-de-sens/

https://leavex.eu/es/posts/por-que-no-tiene-sentido-seguir-en-las-redes-sociales/

https://leavex.eu/it/posts/perche-stare-sui-social-media-non-ha-senso/

#LeaveX

The @Freiheitsrechte quit X **today**. This is the German civil society organization that won the legal case against X.

That all civil society organizations concerned with disinformation campaigns and their threat can do the same.

#X #eXit #LeaveX #EscapeX #disinformation

Why being on X for the sake of opposition is complete nonsense https://leavex.eu/posts/why-stay-on-social-media-makes-no-sense/

“The argument that you can’t leave platforms like X or TikTok because there would otherwise be a lack of “dissent” and “opposition” is untenable for several reasons—it’s simply complete bullshit. It is based on a false assumption about how these platforms work and what impact one’s presence there actually has.”

Great article by @kuketzblog, now in English!

#LeaveX #X #disinformation #USpol #Musk #TikTok

We have added the great Dutch campaign #DetoX, organized by @degoedezaak to our network https://leavex.eu/network/

More information here https://campagnes.degoedezaak.org/campaigns/detox

Great work!

#DetoX #netherlands #eXit #LeaveX

Via @HelloQuitteX

#LeaveX #eXit #helloquitx #X #farright #nazi

If you find opinion articles or news relevant to the triumph of the right on social media and the campaign to leave X, let us know. We have curated some of them here

https://leavex.eu/news/

#LeaveX #news #journalism #eXit #helloquitX #farright #SocialMedia

#LeaveX
El día 20, borraré mi cuenta de #X
Y no estaré solo.
Amigas de la Tierra,
Ecologistas en Acción
y Greenpeace,
junto a cientos de organizaciones de la sociedad civil, también lo harán.
👇
https://es.greenpeace.org/es/sala-de-prensa/comunicados/amigas-de-la-tierra-ecologistas-en-accion-y-greenpeace-junto-a-cientos-de-organizaciones-de-la-sociedad-civil-abandonan-twitter-x/