French researchers aim to ease X refugees’ path with ‘HelloQuitX’


The developers are betting on a campaign urging users to dump X on Jan 20, the day of Musk ally Trump’s inauguration as US president, to drive usage of the HelloQuitX service. — AFP

PARIS: French researchers have developed an application to help users migrate their whole online community from Elon Musk’s X to rival social platforms such as Bluesky or Mastodon.

The developers are betting on a campaign urging users to dump X on Jan 20, the day of Musk ally Donald Trump’s inauguration as US president, to drive usage of the service – dubbed “HelloQuitX” in a play on the name of Japanese cartoon cat Hello Kitty.

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