European institutions are leaving in droves.
4 European universities no longer on X.
Université Paris Cité
@upcite.bsky.social (32.7K*)
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
@vuamsterdam.bsky.social (55.4K*)
UvA Amsterdam
@uva.nl (43.9K*)
Wageningen U&R
@w-u-r.bsky.social (45.7K*)
* followers on X
Somewhat out of scope for this specific article, but in the States’ a lot of cities only make announcements over Tw*tter or Facebook.
I was planning on going to a 4th of July parade with my family, and I only learned it was cancelled (wildfires) because somebody else told me, who was following there, the city website had no mechanism for this kind of news.
Which is really what I’d prefer to see, websites maintained for announcements, and if they want to also post that news on other social media they can use software to crosspost. Also RSS feeds for those who still use readers, plenty of ‘Content Management’ suites provide that functionality by default.
Yeah I still think there should be websites and RSS (sorry about what happened BTW), but the top user was implying socials are useless for them. Most people have social media, but most also don’t have RSS.
They already have websites. And social media is much more accessible than an RSS feed
Somewhat out of scope for this specific article, but in the States’ a lot of cities only make announcements over Tw*tter or Facebook.
I was planning on going to a 4th of July parade with my family, and I only learned it was cancelled (wildfires) because somebody else told me, who was following there, the city website had no mechanism for this kind of news.
Which is really what I’d prefer to see, websites maintained for announcements, and if they want to also post that news on other social media they can use software to crosspost. Also RSS feeds for those who still use readers, plenty of ‘Content Management’ suites provide that functionality by default.
Yeah I still think there should be websites and RSS (sorry about what happened BTW), but the top user was implying socials are useless for them. Most people have social media, but most also don’t have RSS.
Social media requires accounts… by default rss is literally more accessible.
I meant to average users. You’re right that RSS is easier, but most of their target users have accounts anyway