For many, many years, we have been ambivalent regarding our presence on social media in general, and Facebook and X/Twitter in particular.
Already back in 2010, we wrote a (Dutch) blogpost on whether or not to quit Facebook, and in 2015 we joined a large global initiative asking Mark Zuckerberg to stop his internet.org scheme. Since then, things only got worse.
Although social media are undeniably a very powerful tool in community building, we now feel the abuse of power and the tone of voice on X/Twitter, and the endless list of privacy concerns with Facebook far outweigh any benefits, and the ethical divide between those platforms and us has become too large.
Therefore, as of today, we will stop any active interaction on and through X/Twitter and Facebook.
This does not mean we fully turn our backs on social media. In the future, we might join other, more aligned, Social Media platforms such as Mastodon, Bluesky or Diaspora, but we have not yet decided on this.
In the meantime we will post our updates through the blogpages on our website. You can also use our RSS feed to follow us. If we indeed decide to join another social media platform, we will also share this here.
Updates on system status and maintenance can, as usual, be found on https://status.greenhost.net.
PS: Metas decision to stop working with independent fact-checkers was published after our decision to leave the platform, but only strengthens our resolve that we no longer belong there.