Open letter to the German Rectors' Conference: Shut down accounts on Twitter/X, TikTok, Facebook and other centralized services in favor of the Fediverse
Open letter to the German Rectors' Conference: Shut down accounts on Twitter/X, TikTok, Facebook and other centralized services in favor of the Fediverse
Open letter to the German Rectors' Conference (HRK) on the use of social media - petizione online
We call on universities and other higher education institutions in Germany to shut down their accounts on X (formerly Twitter) as soon as possible. Their presence on X/Twitter is incompatible with the...

German scientists and civil rights organizations urge universities and educational institutions to abandon centralized services such as Twitter/X, TikTok, and Facebook over health and privacy issues.
Signatories say that their web presence should be established on Mastodon and other Fediverse servers, because decentralized design is "much more compatible with the rules of democratic and sustainable cooperation."