11mo ago

Labour MPs begin quitting X over ‘hate and disinformation’

www.theguardian.com

The only alternatives mentioned were Threads and Bluesky.

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11mo ago

Labour MPs begin quitting X over ‘hate and disinformation’

www.theguardian.com /technology/article/2024/aug/12/labour-mps-begin-quitting-x-over-hate-and-disinformation

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11mo ago

Labour MPs begin quitting X over ‘hate and disinformation’

www.theguardian.com /technology/article/2024/aug/12/labour-mps-begin-quitting-x-over-hate-and-disinformation

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about time...
Start pushing for mastodon! Honestly there should be an official mastodon instance
- You mean mstdn.social?
  
  I mean there should be a mastodon.gov.uk
Be careful. He might sue saying you have to use the platform. He'll claim that not using it hurts his free speech.
- Yeah, not sure the UK Labour party are going to be receptive to a free speech argument, given recent events. If anything, an updated law might make X liable for the real-world problems it causes.
  
  Can you explain this point?
People in the UK need to start pushing Mastodon hard. You could use the tagline "You don't want to switch services again in a few years, do you?"
Politicians and public should consider quitting X, says Liverpool mayor
"The time is approaching where we’ve got to all examine whether we should, en masse, withdraw from it and for there to be a different platform"
Only now? It's been two years of this and now they've had too much? No partial credit should be given for people that continued to participate when it was clear what was happening.
- Also, I don't believe a significant number of them actually will.
Don't enable his embarrassing nonsense by calling Twitter "X".
- unfortunately their current style guide results in this headline.
checks watch
Uh, sure. Now is good. Several years ago was better, but, yeah.
- The second best time is now.
I hope the canadian mps and mlas follow suit.
- Same. I wish other public figures and journalists would as well.
Have barely touched Twitter since Muskification ruined it.
Threads is okay but Mastodon would be brill with more interaction.
- Bluesky is really nice. It’s like mastodon but with an algorithm. Still decentralised and FOSS. Plus it bridges with mastodon well.
  
  I love that there are so many options for nuSocial tbh. Federation rocks.
  
  it bridges with mastodon well
  Does Bluesky use ActivityPub?
  
  They really just should have used ActivityPub
Is it finally time? The beginning of the end?
It’s rare to see such a big fuck up as with twitter…
Labour MPs begin quitting X over ‘hate and disinformation’
Why does this happen? Lemmy doesn't get mentioned in articles, but Lemmy is still fairly small. Last I checked, Mastodon is doing well against the competitors. BBC even has an experimental instance
https://www.bbc.com/rd/blog/2023-07-mastodon-distributed-decentralised-fediverse-activitypub
- Depends on the writer, chances are that those in the bbc who are involved with the mastodon instance are the nerds (like us) and the writer of this article doesn't know as much and is just listing the places the MPs went, and they are politicians so they wouldn't know about the "nerdy options"
Uh oh, some MPs are about to get sued.
If they actually worried about hate and disinformation they would have quit before it was called X.
They could start their own fediverse instance and ruthless ban users who have ever agreed with Jeremy Corbyn.
Why does no one mention Mastodon AS an alternative(from the MPs)
Labour MP's need to put their grown up pants on and work for the people instead of being emotional about a platform.

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