#Twitter

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We’ve had actions and evidence for years, but at least now we have visual confirmation:

If you are still on , you are on a Nazi site. You support a Nazi site. Full stop

It is no different than the Nazi bar example. Except now the Nazi didn’t just walk into the bar and is allowed to stay, the Nazi *owns the bar*

Leave the fucking Nazi bar. No, your stupid excuse doesn’t matter

Photo of Elon Musk performing a Nazi salute at Trump’s 2024 inauguration

Ik stopte een jaar geleden met . Want zoals ik zelf @Trouw schreef: Twitter is geen dorpsplein, hooguit de kroeg op het dorpsplein: https://www.trouw.nl/opinie/twitter-is-geen-dorpsplein-hooguit-de-kroeg-op-het-dorpsplein~b2f1c17f/ Toch heb ik nu pas Mastodon echt omarmd. Waarom? Twijfels. Ga ik voor het bereik van of de interoperabiliteit van ? En hoeveel energie kan en wil ik erin steken? Mijn conclusie: bereik is tijdelijk en een democratisch internet vergt inzet. Dus nu de vraag: wie moét ik hier volgen?

I just deleted my old link from my profile.

This is an additional step for myself to get completely rid of it. I did had it pinned in my browser all the years, I just removed that last week and never missed it. The only way left I do interact with it by reading is my mobile phone. I do hope I will be able to delete it soon and delete my account shortly after.
The only thing holding me back is that I still did not find a good source of on Mastodon, help wanted for that.

Here in France the initiative https://www.helloquitx.com/ to leave /X—and join Mastodon or Bluesky as better options—has gathered a lot of attention: politicians are talking about it in prime time on major medias.

That's great!

My only nit with the initiative is that it is *not* encouraging to donate to the chosen Mastodon server (for people choosing that over Bluesky).

A better social media world also needs users to understand there is no free lunch for hosting costs.

Did you just join us?

Welcome to Vivaldi Social, Mastodon and the Fediverse.

If you are coming from a place like X, Facebook or TikTok, this place is different. The good thing is that you only see things in your feed from people you follow. The content is shown reverse chronological.

This means that you will likely see a lot less misinformation, hate speech and AI crap.

But if you do not follow anyone, your feed will feel empty. So go ahead and find people and organizations that you like and follow them. Make things interesting. There is a lot of interesting people out there.

The search is great for finding content and who to follow. Hashtags are useful when searching as well.

Research question for those of you who came to the after mostly using mainstream like etc--

what was the final straw that finally got you to make an account here?

Did it take you a while to figure out how the fediverse works, or did you take to it right away?

Do you still use mainstream social media? How often do you post there vs here?

And finally, what is your level of tech expertise? Were/are you already a tech expert (programmer, web developer, "protocol user," whatever you want to call it)?

US$ 30 million to reinvent the wheel by @manualdousuario

"[...]The Free Our Feeds website is weird. There are no documents or anything that resembles something official. There are photos of some people, a manifesto, and a Q&A section with vague promises and superficial information. [...] We already have a billionaire-proof social media. One that, on the same day Free Our Feeds appeared passing the hat to do who knows what within Bluesky, took a concrete step to consolidate its shield against capital by announcing a new governance structure, also non-profit [...]"

https://notes.ghed.in/posts/2025/bluesky-free-our-feeds-mastodon/