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Stepping back from X is a brave and important step by @indivisibleteam - with a characteristically thoughtful essay on their reasoning. Hope to see more follow suit!

We will continue to amplify our groups and partners. We’re not deleting our account or ceding this space. But we hope to see you on our other channels, where we will be investing most of our time and energy moving forward: indivisibleteam.medium.com/were-stepping-…

@IndivisibleTeam Very cool! And we will follow you on Mastodon!

Our movement was born online. It grew thanks to the reach that Twitter afforded us. But the Twitter we knew is largely gone. This dangerous cesspool of hate and disinformation is bad for progressive organizing. So we've decided to step back from "X." ✌️ indivisibleteam.medium.com/were-stepping-…

We’re not worried about our ability to reach voters and have meaningful conversations without Twitter/"X." It might be a bit more difficult, but it will be worth it. Please join us in building community on alternative spaces: indivisibleteam.medium.com/were-stepping-…

When trusted voices begin to leave this platform en-masse, "X" will lose its appeal, pull as a source of real-time information, and remaining legitimacy with policymakers and regular users. We’ll phase down original content to a minimum to prevent "X" from seizing our account.

However much effort we put into creating content that informs voters ahead of elections, it’s all being downranked in favor of misinformation from purchased checkmarks and Elon Musk replying “accurate” to a tweet claiming George Soros is a Lizard God-King turning everything gay.

Musk’s outburst scapegoating Jews for the decline of "X" in September was an inflection point, accelerating internal discussions about our continued participation in a platform that not only allows such hate speech, but rewards, amplifies, and issues it from its C-suite.

Musk's platform has become a megaphone for a bigoted and conspiratorial billionaire, propped up by a subscription scheme that amplifies the voices of transphobes and white nationalists who agree with him and muzzle his critics.

Since purchasing Twitter/"X," Elon Musk has uplifted accounts that target LGBTQ+ people for harassment, spread transphobia and antisemitism, re-verified violent white supremacists, and dabbled with dangerous ‘Great Replacement’ rhetoric.

If you want Elon Musk to keep central control over your social media: Stay on Twitter. ... If you want to have control over your social media: Join the millions already on decentralised social eg calckey.world #GoodbyeTwitter #FEDIVERSE

Back to #Mastodon then, is it.

You all laugh, but Musk has repeatedly shown that he's able to increase membership and traffic for a social media site ten-fold Granted, it's not a site he actually owns, but still #Mastodon

Bye bye #twitter it's time to run away #mastodon

This is how #ElonMusk helped #Mastodon to have more users

I fled from Twitter in November. Coming back today just long enough to urge y'all to move on over to decentralized, non-commercialized Mastodon. Hope to see you there!

High praise here: we built this site for days like this. If you are looking to find a better social home than this #godforsakenhellscape of Twitter, try here as the onramp you might be looking for. #TakeBackSocial spreadmastodon.org

Find me on Mastodon too. I’m there.

If you are already using the @vivaldibrowser and you have a Vivaldi account, joining #Mastodon is easy. You can log in on Vivaldi Social using your Vivaldi.net login. No further sign up is needed.

For me the best way to access #Mastodon is in my browser. @vivaldibrowser comes with a Vivaldi Social panel, but it is easy to add any Mastodon server into a panel as well. Try it out! If you are stuck on Twitter, you can add a panel for that as well!