<story><title>Thousands of Spaniards Leave Twitter for GNU Social</title><url>https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/thousands-of-spaniards-leave-twitter-for-gnu-social</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>loomio</author><text>Something is going on in Spain. You can track the Indignados movement through Occupy and now Podemos. We&amp;#x27;re seeing a parallel movement in technology there to what&amp;#x27;s going on in politics with the Podemos movement [0] - decentralised, grassroots, bottom-up. It&amp;#x27;s deeply exciting to track these digital and cultural trends together and imagine a new paradigm emerging in society.&lt;p&gt;We make an open source tool for distributed collaboration, and our userbase is now overwhelmingly in Spain. This emerged organically. It seems to be very fertile ground right now for distributed communication and democracy. I would advise anyone making software in this space to get a Spanish version out there and join the wave. I wonder about how it will spread to the rest of the Spanish-speaking world and join up with related tools and movements coming out of South America, like DemocracyOS.&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.newyorker.com&amp;#x2F;tech&amp;#x2F;elements&amp;#x2F;spain-politics-via-reddit&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.newyorker.com&amp;#x2F;tech&amp;#x2F;elements&amp;#x2F;spain-politics-via-re...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Thousands of Spaniards Leave Twitter for GNU Social</title><url>https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/thousands-of-spaniards-leave-twitter-for-gnu-social</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jorge_leria</author><text>I call shenanigans. Spaniard here, the story is completely wrong.&lt;p&gt;Most of the 6k registered users on Quitter Spain are inactive and it has nothing to do with Podemos and the indignados movement (they use Twitter actively along with Facebook). Even the user that started this &amp;quot;false migration&amp;quot; (@barbijaputa) is using Twitter and is inactive on Quitter.</text></comment>