German institutions depart X, a day after Musk's Weidel talk – DW – 01/10/2025
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More than 60 German and Austrian academic organizations say they will leave the messaging platform X owned by Elon Musk. The German government has also voiced fears that the platform is warping political discourse.

Summary

Over 60 German and Austrian universities and research institutions announced their exit from Elon Musk’s X (formerly Twitter), citing the platform’s promotion of right-wing populist content and its incompatibility with democratic and scientific values.

This follows Germany’s Federal Court of Justice and trade unions leaving the platform.

The German government is also debating a withdrawal, expressing concerns over X’s polarizing effect on political discourse.

The departure comes after Musk’s public support for Germany’s far-right AfD party and a live talk with its leader Alice Weidel ahead of upcoming elections.

  • GlasgowEnglish
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    4 hours ago

    It doesn’t have a trust structure identical to Twitter though.

        • etuomaala@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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          50 minutes ago

          So to be clear, I don’t need to make an account on bluesky’s servers at all in order to participate in their network?

          • GlasgowEnglish
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            44 minutes ago

            Yeah you can set up your own PDS pretty easily I think.

            For hosting your own entire bluesky it’s more difficult but no technical blocker afaik just poor documentation and tooling because they’re focusing on refining the protocol and improving scaling first.

            https://github.com/itaru2622/bluesky-selfhost-env