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BREAKING NEWS: Posthumus moves from X (previously Twitter) to Mastodon
Recently, the N.W. Posthumus staff, supported by the General Board of the N.W. Posthumus Institute, has decided to stop using X, formerly known as Twitter, for new announcements. This decision has been made as a result of the current developments surrounding the X platform.
As mentioned in our statement on social safety, we want our students, staff, and any other person or party involved with the N.W. Posthumus Institute to feel at ease, mutually respected, and included. This not only applies to our own events, but also extends to our online presence and use of social media. Also, we favour an open society with mutual respect to one another.
Recent events have shown that the X platform repeatedly has fallen short in monitoring and responding adequately to messages of a discriminatory and/or offensive nature. The management of X has also shown not to be able to respond in a decent and respectable way in dealing with these events.
These developments, in addition to the already previously implemented limitations in accessibility of the X platform have led us to believe that the use of this platform is no longer compatible with the norms and values supported by the N.W. Posthumus Institute. We therefore will stop using the platform actively, effective 1 March 2024. Our account will remain visible for some time for redirection purposes, but will not be used for active communication from our side.
The N.W. Posthumus Institute will instead join the initiative supported by SURF and the Dutch universities to use the open-source social platform Mastodon as alternative to Twitter. This platform is server-based and moderated via the server owners, so not by a large commercial party. Joining the SURF-pilot allows us to start right away within a trusted and well-embedded logistic environment.
We hope you do understand and respect our decision. Keep a close eye on the website and newsletter about any new developments and join us on Mastodon.
