Author: Jeroen Clemens, ELINET Web Administrator, Elinet Co-chair `Digital Literacy

We move to Mastodon.

ELINET is not happy with Twitter. We discussed this and decided to leave Twitter and move to Mastodon. We are waiting for you. Please share this message broadly in your networks.

Please find us here: https://mastodon.education/@ELINET. Our name (handle) is @ELINET@mastodon.education.

Why did we leave Twitter? Our board member and co-chair of Digital Literacy Colin Harrison formulated our thoughts very eloquently in a letter he sent to the Guardian, a major UK newspaper, on Wednesday, November 2. Read the letter here in the Guardian or below 

Why leave Twitter?

Guardian Letters, Wednesday, November 2
Elon Musk’s dangerous view of democracy

If posting baseless conspiracy theory stories that gain tens of thousands of “likes” within hours (Nils Pratley on finance, 31 October) is Elon Musk’s idea of democratising social media, then I’m going to follow the lead of other European academics who have contacted me this week from Germany and the Netherlands to say that they are permanently unsubscribing from Twitter.… Read the rest