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French group encourages mass departure from Elon Musk's X platform on US inauguration day

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The French Human Rights League (LDH) and the National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) cofounded the collective “HelloQuitteX,” which is now supported by a group of 86 unions and organisations that pledge to no longer post any content on X because the algorithms “favour the proliferation of hateful content and conspiracy theories,” according to a press release on their website.

The platform, the coalition says, has also been the scene of “cyberharassment campaigns” by the far right in countries like France and the United States.

www.euronews.com/next/2025/01/15/french-group-encourages-mass-departure-from-elon-musks-x-platform-on-us-inauguration-day

It's nice to see some resistance in Europe against US fascism
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The facsist Elon Musk is getting his own office in the White House

(Meanwhile lichess will probably tell he he is sorta left leaning)
#3
Please go. It spill be a good start to cleaning up the internet.
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@Raspberry_yoghurt said in #2:
> The facsist Elon Musk is getting his own office in the White House
>
> (Meanwhile lichess will probably tell he he is sorta left leaning)

If you wanna break the system, register as an independent. Oh yea, you are French.

Then WHY DO YOU CARE ?

Ahem. parrdon me.
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@robustus-robusta said in #7:
> Oh my poor Raspberry, but you're completely out of touch with reality.
>
> Lichess maker @thibault is a radical leftist, and he left twitter long ago.
>
> mas.to/@thibault/109540721548036177

I don't believe that he is left wing - as he allows Nazi stuff on his web page and the moderators ignore me when I report it
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@Raspberry_yoghurt said in #8:
> I don't believe that he is left wing - as he allows Nazi stuff on his web page and the moderators ignore me when I report it
Thibault is a developer. He has better things to do with his time than policing the off-topic (which he primarily sees as a way of letting steam off so that spammers don't pollute the chess-related forum).

In addition Lichess has a relatively small budget and can't afford to pay the wage for many moderators. Notably, in 2024 Lichess hired more moderators, and as a result the spending exceeded the incomes. You can read more here, in the section "finance and governing" lichess.org/@/Lichess/blog/lichess-a-review-of-2024/hYZssXbK
In turn most moderators don't want to deal with the off-topic, which they see as a heap of trash.

I will agree with you that sometimes moderator decisions seem questionable, but if you have any doubt Thibault is left wing, I invite you to have a look at his mastodon profile, that I linked above.
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@robustus-robusta said in #9:
> Thibault is a developer. He has better things to do with his time than policing the off-topic (which he primarily sees as a way of letting steam off so that spammers don't pollute the chess-related forum).

He sets the rules. So he chooses rules that are good for far right extremists.

> In addition Lichess has a relatively small budget and can't afford to pay the wage for many moderators.

So close the forums instead if it becomes a nazi thing and he doesn't want to moderate.

That's what he'd do if he cared - but he doesn't.

> I will agree with you that sometimes moderator decisions seem questionable, but if you have any doubt Thibault is left wing, I invite you to have a look at his mastodon profile, that I linked above.

I look at his actions, and they say far right to me. Because he

a) created a forum

b) decided to have rules that are good for right wing extremists

c) when they then show up and post naxi stuff, he just lets them.