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A group of researchers at France's CNRS public research body have developed an app to help users migrate from X to other platforms. The "HelloQuitX" campaign (a play on "Hello Kitty," since the letter Q sounds like K and X is pronounced "eeks" in French) allows users to transfer the lists of people they follow and their followers to Bluesky or Mastodon. The CNRS says it will delete personal information after migration. David Chavalarias, a mathematician at CNRS, says more than 5,000 people and organizations have signed up so far. Here's more from France 24.
#Technology #OpenSocialWeb #HelloQuitX #France #Xodus
French researchers aim to ease X refugees' path with 'HelloQuitX'
French researchers have developed an application to help users migrate their whole online community from Elon Musk's X to rival social platforms such as Bluesky or Mastodon.France 24 (FRANCE 24)
Here in France the #HelloQuitX initiative helloquitx.com/ to leave #Twitter/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.
euronews.com/next/2025/01/15/f…
#Paris : « Notre #mission de #service #public est devenue #impossible »… La mairie annonce #quitter #X
20minutes.fr/paris/4134113-202…
Paris : « Notre mission de service public est devenue impossible »… La mairie annonce quitter X
La Mairie de Paris annonce qu’elle quittera le réseau social X lundi, estimant que la plateforme « amoindrit la portée des messages factuels et objectifs »Quentin Meunier (20 Minutes)
In English too because possibly interesting for many: app.helloquitx.com also works even if you haven’t had a Twitter account in years!
Only thing to do is to import an old Twitter backup (mine is from November 2022) and connect a Mastodon account (and/or Bluesky), and apparently in one week, it will find these old contacts as long as they used the platform too.
Curious to see if it’ll find again here people I haven’t followed in years and who hadn’t made a move until now! 😊
Canadian photo sharers -- sign-ups are open!
We'll be reviewing and manually approving applications to prevent bots from using this instance for spam, etc
#Canada #HelloQuitX #HelloQuitInstagram #Pixelfed
@helloQuitX maybe we could join forces? I started a petition focused on European politicians and leadership openpetition.eu/leavex
I hope soon to finish setting up a website leavex.eu with the letter in several languages.
A list of politicians still on X would be good and I just saw @eloquence started one spreadsheet some time ago.
Je partage ici un argumentaire que je viens d'envoyer à la direction de mon institution / centre de recherche, pour les inciter à quitter X et Meta, dans le sillage de Polytechnique :
cloud.raphael-jolivet.name/nex…
C'est assez orienté recherche / académique mais peut être adapté à d'autres secteurs.
J'y mentionne l'exode prévu le 20 janvier avec #HelloQuiteX
For English speakers who do not speak French:
I wanted to let you know about this awesome movement started in France to encourage people to quit X (Twitter) on January 20.
You can follow it here with the hashtag #HelloQuitX and use Mastodon's translation feature to read the posts (if your server has it). You can read more about this movement on this website (in English): helloquitx.com/
You can support this movement by following it on Mastodon, and sharing widely: @helloQuitX
