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Elon Musk's X lost 11 million users in the EU over the past 5 months (mashable.com)
submitted 1 year ago by alyaza@beehaw.org to c/technology@beehaw.org
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X's user base in the European Union is now officially lower than it was prior to Elon Musk's acquisition of the company.

And that's according to a new report from Elon Musk's X (formerly Twitter, but you knew that). The social media platform now has a total of 94.8 million monthly active users in the EU.

That's a loss of roughly 11 million European users from X's previous transparency report, as highlighted by Social Media Today.

Mashable previously reported on X's declining user base in the EU last fall. Now, we know that X's European user base has continued to drop. In 2022, before Musk acquired the social media platform, the company had more than 100 million users in Europe.

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[–] RejZoR@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago (4 children)

EU needs to run own instance of Mastodon officially and have ALL European politicians on it and go off X entirely. Posting anything on X is supporting nazi Elon.

[–] shininghero@pawb.social 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Hell, I'd even settle for them using something like postybirb to multi-post across all three platforms.
Bonus points if the ones going to twitter are cut off mid-sentence and replaced with a URL to the official mastodon post.

[–] RejZoR@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago

That would be a nice touch.

[–] sqgl@beehaw.org 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Twitter would ban such Tweets.

[–] shininghero@pawb.social 0 points 1 year ago

Only for normal users. Politicians will likely get a white glove treatment due to the media shitstorm they could invoke.

[–] PenguinTD@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Is there a list of more popular decentralized platform and their equivalent?

  • Reddit -> lemmy

  • Twitter -> Mastodon

  • FB -> ??

  • Discord -> ??

[–] unique_hemp@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 1 year ago

Mastodon can also replace the main FB feed. Matrix would be the closest alternative for Discord, but it has its share of problems.

[–] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Discord -> Matrix or Revolt.

[–] sleepybisexual@beehaw.org 0 points 1 year ago

Matrix is a fuck. I sometimes use it. Way to buggy for general use

[–] barsoap@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago

The Commission already has an instance and the ECJ also has an instance. I didn't find one for the parliament, they might not even want to have one but instead leave it to the parties. A parliament instance would amount to the EP president policing parliamentarian's speech not just inside parliament but also outside of it, kinda iffy.

[–] ReluctantZen@feddit.nl 0 points 1 year ago

They have a Mastodon instance for the EC: https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/

Which is a start