German anti-racism body leaves X over ‘rise in hate speech’::A German agency that tackles discrimination and racism says it is quitting the social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter. It cited a rise in hate speech since owner Elon Musk took over last year.
Many German officials have resisted calls to quit X, saying there was no substitute channel at present that would allow them to reach a broad section of the online public.
That’s it right there - this line really emphasizes why Musky came up with the idea to buy the platform in the first place.
It’s also an exit condition. When it no longer serves as a channel to reach enough people, they leave, and more leave as a result… the interesting question is there that threshold lies
There certainly isn’t a shortage of government-run mastodon servers in Germany. It’s probably a good idea to make sure everything gets posted there and agencies with small and specialised audiences can get off twitter (also, facebook) quite easily. Say if you’re interested in updates to discussions about updates to the tax code.
Others will stay as long as there’s people to reach and the information is important. E.g. the weather service can withdraw when they get tired of the platform, while catastrophe relief just plainly won’t as long as there’s people on there. Everything actually important that the weather service says is also said by catastrophe relief (imminent bad storm, extreme UV/heat, what have you).
I honestly don’t get Elon’s obsession with X. First it was his thing with x.com and PayPal, then it was SpaceX, then he called his son X, then Twitter…
No wonder his wife became his X wife.
I think he believes that ‘X’ is ‘the unknown’ and that makes it cool and mysterious.
Have you seen his Tweets? He’s definitely got a 10-year-old mentality. He changed his screen name to ‘Harry Bolz’ for a while. That’s the level of ‘humor’ he’s at.
Tbh it has taken far longer than I expected but people do love their Xitter
I’m amazed that the EU or Germany still haven’t blocked Twitter for that matter.
That would be concerning. What would stop them from banning something like a US mastodon server?
