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
That's.....actually a cool AF idea/inplementation of Fediverse shit. A practical use as well, as they'd control who was on the instance and would be a sorta pseudo-verification process for any accounts on it's own.
I think it's perfect for governments. You can subscribe anywhere, you know it's legit, and that's a much better way to do notifications than twitter.
Yeah I'm not entirely well-versed in the implications of what that would allow, but it's another use-case that would be cool to see!
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?
There was/is a wave of far-right riots happening in the UK, which involved a lot lotting and attacks on Muslims. This was triggered by a stabbing in Southport and a lie that spread on social media claiming that the perpetrator was a Muslim migrant that came to the UK on a 'small boat' crossing the channel (he was actually born and grew up in Cardiff). Musk may be liable because during the riots he made several posts undermining the government's attempts to quell the unrest and his general failure to tackle disinformation spreading on Twitter, such as the Muslim migrant lie.
Fair point. I thought you were implying the opposite.
I read it as implying Labour is anti-free speech for clamping down on racist hate speech and mob mentality.
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".
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?
No, they use the Authenticated Tranfer protocol (atproto) which they developed, but I believe it's well documented.
No.
But bridgy works well
Is it finally time? The beginning of the end?
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"
It’s rare to see such a big fuck up as with twitter…
They could start their own fediverse instance and ruthless ban users who have ever agreed with Jeremy Corbyn.
If they actually worried about hate and disinformation they would have quit before it was called X.
Uh oh, some MPs are about to get sued.
Why does no one mention Mastodon AS an alternative(from the MPs)
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