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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 66 points 1 month ago (5 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 21 points 1 month 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 6 points 1 month ago

That would be a nice touch.

[–] sqgl@beehaw.org 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Twitter would ban such Tweets.

[–] shininghero@pawb.social 7 points 1 month ago

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

[–] barsoap@lemm.ee 10 points 1 month 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 9 points 1 month ago

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

Which is a start

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

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

  • Reddit -> lemmy

  • Twitter -> Mastodon

  • FB -> ??

  • Discord -> ??

[–] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Discord -> Matrix or Revolt.

Though Discord is trying to be an everything-app these days so "alternatives" to it include old school forums, wikis, screen sharing programs, IRC, Mumble/TeamSpeak, file sharing site etc if you just keep spliting individual parts of it off.

[–] sleepybisexual@beehaw.org 6 points 1 month ago

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

[–] unique_hemp@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 month ago

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

[–] gencha@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago

Social Media is an entirely different game if you're not doing it for manipulation purposes. At scale, government operated social media fails, due to lack of or excess moderation. Social media works because it triggers emotions. People go there to hate. Mastodon is methadone for these junkies.

I don't even understand why anyone would trust any self-published metrics from this scam artist.

[–] mooncake@lemm.ee 15 points 1 month ago

Not enough I'm afraid.

[–] ddash@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Took way too fucking long, how are people still on there unless they are total Nazis and racists.

[–] desktop_user@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

To be fair against mastodon the "mastodonservers.net" (first result on DuckDuckGo when looking up "mastodon instance list") does list an instance featuring primarily pornographic content first (as far as I can tell this is because it list by usercount in decending order), which could be off putting to some people.

The first Google result for the same query "instances.social" is a list, but in the non legacy non advanced view has almost completely non-functional filters.

Neither of these are "joinmastodon.org" which is probably the best website for someone trying to join mastodon, considering it appears to be ran by the developers.

[–] Alice@beehaw.org 3 points 1 month ago

People still don't know what Mastodon is. I mentioned it recently and someone asked, "isn't it mostly white supremacists?"

[–] collapse_already@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I have stopped using twitter. Is that enough or do I need to delete my account somehow?

[–] crmsnbleyd@sopuli.xyz 9 points 1 month ago
[–] 100_kg_90_de_belin@feddit.it 3 points 1 month ago

Empty it and delete it

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 month ago

That's sad news. It still had 11 million users.

[–] wirebeads@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 month ago

Do better EU. You can lose all your subscriptions to musks Nazi platforms.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

lol they claimed some time back to have 3 billion users, so I’m sure this 11 million is no big deal.

Because half of the entire human population has a Twitter account.

[–] PolarKraken@programming.dev 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Nah, this seems like a big deal. Not necessarily "imminent doom for Twitter" big, but still. Social media platforms live and die on network effects, and none (that I'm aware of) has ever successfully "forced" their own viability without having naturally strong network effects.

Network effects work in favor of signups and engagement of course, but they work on the downswing too, they can accelerate abandonment and replacement.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah it’s definitely a big problem for them. I was being sarcastic above. There’s no way they have 3 billion users.

[–] PolarKraken@programming.dev 1 points 1 month ago

Whoops 😅