We, the Aktionsbündnis neue Soziale Medien (New Social Media Action Alliance) today appealed to #universities in Germany to shut down their #X (formerly #Twitter) accounts as soon as possible.
Signatures for the appeal, written as an open letter, are now being collected on the #OpenPetition platform 📝
openpetition.de/petition/onlin…
The appeal points out that the presence on X/Twitter does not do justice to the universities' remit to provide information because of the #disinformation and political agitation practised there. At the same time, presences should be established on #Mastodon and other services in the #Fediverse, whose decentralised and moderated design is much more compatible with the rules of democratic and sustainable coexistence.
Aktionsb. neue Soziale Medien
Als Antwort auf Aktionsb. neue Soziale Medien • • •The open letter to the German Rectors' Conference #HRK, which calls on universities to use #Mastodon and other #Fediverse servers
openpetition.de/petition/onlin… ,
was first signed by the following colleagues:
Prof. Dr. Mario Birkholz, Berlin; Prof. Dr. Björn Brembs, Regensburg; Prof. Dr. Ulrich Dirnagl, Berlin; Prof. Dr. Leonhard Dobusch, Innsbruck; Prof. Dr. Konrad Förstner, Köln; Lambert Heller, Hannover; Annette Hiller, Berlin; Alexander Hoffmeier, Berlin; Dr. Martin Kögler, Oulu; Mike Kuketz, Karlsruhe; David Lohner, Karlsruhe; Matthias Marx, Hamburg; Prof. Dr. Rainer Mühlhoff, Osnabrück; Prof. Dr. Claudia Müller-Birn, Berlin; Dr. Mattis Neiling, Berlin; Christian Pietsch, Bielefeld; Prof. Dr.-Ing. Maija Poikela, Berlin; Rainer Rehak, Berlin; PD Dr. Stefan Rödiger, Senftenberg; Nicole Wolf, München.
Erik
Als Antwort auf Aktionsb. neue Soziale Medien • • •