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Chances for the fediverse? Elon Musk takes hit as Europeans ditch X in droves (www.politico.eu)

submitted 2 days ago by tfm@europe.pub to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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cross-posted from: https://europe.pub/post/372863

cross-posted from: https://metawire.eu/post/61363

The right-wing billionaire’s platform has recently lost about 10 percent of its European user base.

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[-] ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

Europeans don't like Nazis.

Americans, well...

[-] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

The Americans inspired them after all.

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[-] No1ButtMe@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

I hate X but I also dislike echo chambers

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[-] atro_city@fedia.io 53 points 2 days ago

Let me guess, they're moving to Bluesky?

[-] Sl00k@programming.dev 19 points 2 days ago

I tried moving to Mastadon first a few years ago and it was a pretty shit experience, Bluesky however has stuck in my app rotation pretty well.

[-] atro_city@fedia.io 10 points 1 day ago

Because Bluesky is centralised. You went from one serial killer's house to another. You don't know which serial killer owns your new house, but you're hoping they'll be nicer than the previous one. But at least their house is nearly as nice as the old serial killer's house.

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[-] excral@feddit.org 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

General advice regarding open source: even if you tried something out years ago and didn't like it, it may be well worth giving it another shot. Open source projects often need some time to mature and take their time to improve, but only get better over time.

[-] moopet@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 day ago

Which is incidentally the opposite of proprietary products, where if you give it another go in a few years it either doesn't exist or is enshittified.

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[-] Ilixtze@lemm.ee 61 points 2 days ago

It's not just X; American social media has been gradually turning into such a shit show for the last 10 years: censorship, misinformation, consensus manufacture and creeping enshitification. I jumped ship to the fediverse and never looked back!

[-] b3an@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Couldn’t happen to a nicer piece of shit.

[-] Formfiller@lemmy.world 47 points 2 days ago

It is humanities responsibility to make the rest of this man’s life miserable

[-] vaguerant@fedia.io 42 points 2 days ago

What's the quality like of the people who are still on Twitter in 2025? Does the fediverse want them? (These are real questions, I have no idea if there's still any decent people on Twitter.)

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[-] MyOpinion@lemm.ee 33 points 2 days ago

Abandon anything this Nazi touches.

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