Today I attended a workshop about an upcoming campaign urging our public institutions to do the right thing: join the universal social network, #PublicActivityActivityPub or #PAAP for short ;-) @victor#publicactivityactivitypub#paaposted the session and we had several people from cultural institutions, universities […]

We’re particularly delighted to see the @EUCommission include a call to “strengthen the open source social media space by supporting open and decentralised social media solutions and platforms. The Commission currently runs a #mastodon instance, which hosts the Commission’s presence and plans to […]

The @EUCommission just released a statement positioning open source as central to #europe’s #techsovereignty. We couldn’t agree more. #opensource is critical to a robust and independent society. Here’s our full statement […]

Are you still on Elon Musk’s X? If the answer is yes, ask yourself why. Are you really okay with a billionaire meddling in your national politics manufacturing outrage and monetising rage? X has become nothing more than an open sewer and pretending otherwise is self deception. #twitter […]

This is why the Fediverse matters: it's a platform designed for human conversation, not algorithmic engagement. https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/6nue7_v1 #facebook #instagram #bigtech #socialmedia #fediverse

Back in March, I spoke with a researcher from Interfaced about Leave X, digital democracy, and the fight against disinformation. https://www.interfaced.eu/leave-x-digital-democracy-and-the-fight-against-disinformation/ I met an @edgeryders collaborator while trying to catch @bjoernsta at […]

A Russian influence campaign hijacked hundreds of Bluesky accounts, many belonging to influential Americans, to spread propaganda, researchers said, in a striking disinformation tactic that weaponized authentic identities rather than relying on fake accounts. The campaign, which the researchers […]

Elon Musk is likely to become the world's first trillionaire soon, as SpaceX heads towards its first initial public offering. Paul Waldman writes for Public Notice about Musk's hype-driven wealth, why neither this nor his behavior have stopped some people wanting to invest in him, how this and […]

How Elon Musk galvanized the UK’s online safety regime https://www.politico.eu/article/keir-starmer-elon-musk-grok-galvanized-uk-online-safety-regime/ #uk #grok #musk #leavex

@nicolashenin.net is this new #Musk ular provocation going to make British authorities ditch their X accounts ? And, with a bit of extra optimism, also make them call publicly for an all-UK #leavex 😁 ??

RE: https://mastodon.social/@madswulff/116539610687206575 EN: I simply cannot understand why our elected politicians would choose to be present on the undemocratic platform X. They are helping to support Musk and his extreme worldview. And it is incomprehensible that they support the US Big […]

'Man in smart glasses filmed me in London then told me to pay' https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwy87wqz0q9o "...Alice contacted the account that posted the video of her, asking for it to be taken down. She told the man who posted it that it made her feel "humiliated". In the email she […]

RE: https://chaos.social/@plinubius/116519776600070319 EN: The emphasis on "reach" regarding X in Martin Andree's presentation. One can sense just how much of a blow the German public is taking from the bold decision by German political parties to abandon X ;-) #leavex #democracy #germany #noafd

Nicht nur große Teile von SPD, Grünen und Linken sind nun von X zu Bluesky gewechselt, sondern auch das Nius-Portal samt Gefolgschaft. Deshalb brauchen die Aufrechten bei #bluesky nun noch eine weitere App: #blocksky: https://blocksky.app

RE: https://mastodon.social/@reithose/116515186877622704 Onze partij zit vol met geweldige nerds (zie bijv. https://www.politici-op-mastodon.nl/) die bijna allemaal onderschrijven: als je het systeem wil veranderen, moet je zelf willen veranderen. Tijd dat we ons hierbij aansluiten. X is de […]

RE: https://oisaur.com/@renchap/116515786478423013 EN: Wednesday I will represent @Mastodon at the National Assembly for a round table around free software, organized within the framework of the Commission of Inquiry into structural dependencies and systemic vulnerabilities in the digital […]

It's official! I'm *permanently* banned from X for tweeting "TLDR: Fascism." (appeal denied) What an honor—and a sign that the Silicon Valley billionaires feel threatened by my book. (One of my final viral posts featured this cover.) Pre-order here! www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ne...

Met Gala VIP toilet, installed outside the Met Museum in New York. A $100,000 ticket gets you fashion, glamour, and apparently the full Amazon worker experience. 💋

RE: https://mastodon.social/@AwetTesfaiesus/116514953039588679 As some of you have already guessed: the progressive parties in German politics (and the social democrats 😉) have jointly decided to leave the manipulative and abusive cesspit that twitter has turned into. I‘m very happy and also a […]

Packed room at #2MR / Save Social thx @bjoernsta.eimsbuettel.social.ap.brid.gy#2MR!

La campagne présidentielle de 2027 est déjà lancée sur les réseaux sociaux https://www.franceinfo.fr/replay-jt/france-2/20-heures/la-campagne-presidentielle-de-2027-est-deja-lancee-sur-les-reseaux-sociaux_7980851.html > [...] Peu importe combien ils […] [Original post on universites.social]

RE: https://flipboard.com/@derspiegel/politik-9804pdu1z/-/a-EWiQOZbiStyrGIfol7ubRQ%3Aa%3A2114916517-%2F0 EN: SPD, Greens and Left Party jointly cancel their party presence at X Bravo! 👏🥳 #leavex #germany #democracy

We are incredibly proud to grow our Digital Independence Day internationally: The website https://di.day is now available in english thanks to @edri. So please spread the word and help us grow this movement!

RE: https://social.tchncs.de/@kuketzblog/116464952827497758 EN: Headline: “Signal Hacked” – No. Nobody was hacked. What really happened: Politicians clicked on a phishing link and revealed their verification code or PIN. Signal itself has not been compromised, the encryption works perfectly […]

Brooklyn phone-free parties are filled with rituals. I went to one. https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/health-wellness/2026/04/21/brooklyn-phone-free-parties-are-filled-with-rituals-i-went-to-one/89625624007/ Awesome! #mobile #party

Surveillance and data-manipulation giant Palantir was a CIA-funded creation and has become one of the planet's most powerfully evil companies. It is vital that the general public understand the danger -- and then work to root it out of our lives […]

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I am optimistic that in the future we will see, for those users who want that, an automatic and permanent, complete bridge and #interoperability between #bluesky and #mastodon after our discussion today at the #ijf26 in #perugia with Rose Wang Felix Hlatky Björn Staschen. See Video of our […]

The far-right is creating lots of fake AI generated avatars supporting their political leadership on Social Media. In the US, pro-Trump https://archive.is/1q1zM In Brazil, there are videos pro-Bolsonaro (not the father in jail, but one of his sons) […]

As more and more people abandon X for Masto and BSky, this is the shitshow that remains:

We are really glad to see @openpetition. They were our choice to host the petition for the #leavex, in January 2025. https://www.openpetition.eu/petition/online/an-open-letter-to-all-european-politicians-and-leaders-to-abandon-x-twitter We tried to host our letter (https://leavex.eu/letter) at […]

RE: https://bewegung.social/@neuSoM/116425879933047455 EN: And so, visitors to the website https://openpetition.de no longer click the #x logo as it was for a long time. Instead, the pioneers of #citizenparticipation have now even added a share button / #sharebutton to their petition pages […]

The Parliament of Estonia is orders of magnitude smarter than whoever is in the Parliament of Canada (including Mark Carney). "Europe should regulate Big Tech instead of banning kids from social media, Estonia says" […]

I’ll be on stage with @mellifluousbox.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy at the #2mr festival in Hamburg as an #atproto representative of @eurosky.social on May 4th in case anyone wants to come! Don’t come if expect a fight though - we’re talking collaboration :) Here’s the link: https://2mr.social

I want to applaud @rose.bsky.team and @mellifluousbox for appearing on stage together and expressing a desire to cooperate. As I've said for a long time, #bluesky and #mastodon, #activitypub and #atprotocol should not be fighting each other. The real opposition are the oligarch-controlled […]

To be clear, we are not against EuroSky, and we want to avoid protocol wars. However, we just received an email from @eurosky.social asking for a donation on the same day that their decentralized feature seems to have encountered significant issues. How […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

@leavex PDS is one part of the network, you also need a relay, and an AppView. Even Blacksky, the only "independent" community still relies on Bluesky to some degree. See a great explainer thread here: https://mastodon.social/@mcc/116415821939972420

We prefer #Mastodon for several reasons, the main one being its ability to easily form independent, community-driven interoperable instances. Nevertheless, we have a #Bluesky account so as not to exclude people who prefer this alternative. Recently we […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

We’re happy to share that Mastodon has been awarded a service agreement from the Sovereign Tech Fund @sovtechfund 🎉 This covers five major initiatives through 2026 and 2027. We are very grateful for this support. Read about the details in our blog post […]

#Hungary has spoken. Orbán's 16-year reign is over. 🇭🇺🇪🇺 Dear JD Vance, your last-minute campaign appearance for #Orbán was truly decisive. We strongly suggest you tour #Europe and support the far-right wherever you can.

RE: https://eupolicy.social/@hpod16/116391672583732361 When we scraped the MEP data, the total was different by one. So we have chosen the closest figure. Spoiler: here's the (approximate?) answer https://leavex.eu/politicians #eu #mep #leavex

Europe should regulate Big Tech instead of banning kids from social media, Estonia says https://archive.is/2026.04.10-165315/https://www.politico.eu/article/europe-should-stand-up-to-big-tech-instead-of-imposing-social-media-bans-estonia-says/ #bigtech #socialmedia #estonia #eu

RE: https://mastodon.social/@chrisstoecker/116385262060097378 EN: Just as relevant today as it was last Sunday: In Hungary, the leading figure among right-wing authoritarian, pro-Russian actors—from the AfD to MAGA—could lose an election tomorrow. Pro-Orbán propaganda from Russia shows how the […]

Conspiracy theories are nothing new, but digital platforms have transformed their scale, speed and influence. They are now a major part of the disinformation ecosystem, shaping public debate and eroding trust. This latest paper explores what drives […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

RE: https://chaos.social/@dreirik/115876170130580367 Oh no! Can someone attending the event inform about the #leavex campaign? Unfortunately, we didn't know about it until today. #bigtech #cableresist

Men Are Buying Hacking Tools to Use Against Their Wives and Friends https://archive.is/2026.04.08-144754/https://www.wired.com/story/men-are-buying-hacking-tools-to-use-against-their-wives-and-friends/ #ai #sexualabuse #survaillance #telegram

RE: https://mastodon.social/@_elena/116368379234020589 Cher Président Macron, pourquoi n'êtes-vous pas encore présent sur le Fediverse ? Cessez de laisser cet espace aux trolls et aux extrémistes, quittez X. #leavex

Damn #fediverse hooligans. Putting their grafiti on the #nyc subway. Stupid decentralised anarchy.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/116337015253122494 I very much appreciate the way they wrote this: "SpaceX, which recently reported two Starlink satellite failures that created new space debris, yesterday accused Amazon and its launch partner Arianespace of negligence that 'needlessly […]