In a TAZ editorial, Carolina Schwarz observes a recent round of German organizations finally leaving Twitter. She argues that organizations who have been fighting to preserve the space that once was Twitter should give it up. Doing so will render it irrelevant.

I would add that public facing organizations and individuals need to get over their addiction to the misleading follower numbers on xitter (pronounce “x” with an “sh” sound) and learn how to navigate and help shape the open social media spaces in the Fediverse and the Fediverse-adjacent Bluesky. Public and publicly funded organizations in particular have a duty to make their communications accessible on open social platforms, even if they want to maintain a presence in the siloed spaces too.

In fact, I no longer bother following institutions, organizations, and publications not on an open social media platform or offering reliable RSS or JSON feeds. There’s more than enough to learn in this world without relying on wealthy, would-be gatekeepers of content they did not create.