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FC St. Pauli withdraws from X


Thursday, 14. November 2024, 12:00 Uhr


FC St. Pauli is withdrawing from the social media platform, X. The Boys in Brown joined the platform in 2013 and had 250,000 followers. Announcing its reasons for withdrawing, the club said that owner Elon Musk had turned a space for debate into an amplifier of hate that was capable of influencing the German parliamentary election campaign.

Since taking over Twitter, as the platform was previously known, Musk has converted X into a hate machine. Racism and conspiracy theories are allowed to spread unchecked and even curated. Insults and threats are seldom sanctioned and are sold as freedom of speech.

In addition, following his election victory Donald Trump has picked Musk to head up a new government department. Musk was a major backer of the Trump campaign and also used X for this purpose. It is to be assumed that X will also promote authoritarian, misanthropic and far-right content during the forthcoming German election campaign, this manipulating the public discourse.

FC St. Pauli had already curbed its use of X and increasingly posted political statements in support of diversity and inclusion to make a stand against hate. Now the club is ceasing its activity on X. The account will no longer be used, but the content of the last 11 years will remain online in view of its contemporary historical value.

The club would like to thank its members for the critical exchange on what to do about X and calls on its followers on the platform to switch to BlueSky. FC St. Pauli’s English account will also move to BlueSky.

 

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I have heard BlueSky is the one getting a big influx of people, supposedly created by the main guys at twitter after being bought out. The whole reason twitter was as useful was because of the moderation imo. Musk got what he wanted though I suppose. 

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2 hours ago, Viva la FCB said:

I have heard BlueSky is the one getting a big influx of people, supposedly created by the main guys at twitter after being bought out. The whole reason twitter was as useful was because of the moderation imo. Musk got what he wanted though I suppose. 

Are you on Bluesky? 

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1 hour ago, Tommy said:

@tommyf95.bsky.social

 

3 minutes ago, Coma said:

@comadiv.bsky.social

not that anyone asked...

Lucky guys just gained a new follower. 

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10 hours ago, Happy Blue said:

Loving the lefty meltdowns 😂

Of course if it was a right wing football team choosing not to use a left wing social media platform they'd be 'exercising their rights' and 'sensibly walking away'. 
X is just bots and russians now. Who the fuck wants to use it no matter your political opinions?

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6 hours ago, Devil-Dick Willie said:

Of course if it was a right wing football team choosing not to use a left wing social media platform they'd be 'exercising their rights' and 'sensibly walking away'. 
X is just bots and russians now. Who the fuck wants to use it no matter your political opinions?

X is trash like all the others 😂 i don't use any social media personally 

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Twitter has become pretty much unusable, unless you like your default feed to be filled with endless bots, scammers, incel posts, racism, bigotry, misogyny, and just overall hatred

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28 minutes ago, nudge said:

Twitter has become pretty much unusable, unless you like your default feed to be filled with endless bots, scammers, incel posts, racism, bigotry, misogyny, and just overall hatred

Ironically they say people going over to BlueSky are creating their own echo chamber. As if they're not in one themselves. 

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46 minutes ago, Stan said:

Ironically they say people going over to BlueSky are creating their own echo chamber. As if they're not in one themselves. 

The big difference is that on Bluesky, I don't have political content shoved down my throat by force, and can just focus on stuff that I am on social media for - my interests, hobbies, scientific research, etc. I got on Bluesky a long time ago when it was still invite-only, and used it parallel to Twitter, but just can't be arsed anymore when it's all about American politics, ideological and cultural wars, and everyone hating on everything and everyone else

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