Comment on EU disease agency considers quitting Elon Musk’s X over disinfo
shartworx@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
Why is anyone considering staying on X?
I hadn’t used my twitter account in over a year, but today finally deleted all my posts and disabling the account.
I had it for 16 years and thought it’d feel different, but I’ve been so far away from it now I really had no emotions to shutting it down. It was easy, and now I have no ties to that garbage any more.
It’s hard to feel any emotions while severing such impersonal relationships. I would advise to do it whenever you feel like it’s the correct thing to do. Go where the users shine, the memes flow and the owners aren’t dipshit billionaires who mine your data, restrict the free internet and pollute your online experiences with nazi bullshit. Be a digital nomad.
At this point Musk might greet all your health-related updates with a 1000x boost of anti-vax nonsense from RFK Jr and an army of anti-vax bots spewing Nazi rhetoric, then you getting sued and your account banned if you suggest something “fishy” is happening
Fuck this absolute steaming pile of a website and the nutjob that smeared his shit all over it. No government agency should even this of using it for anything regarding public communications
Why did anyone join it in the first place?
It USED to be a decent source for news and updates on stuff but that’s long gone. I deleted my account just before that weird billionaire guy bought it and don’t regret it one bit.
I don’t know about others but I’m there for the porn
Objectively the most rational reason to be there. It’s named X, after all.
TheFogan@programming.dev 4 months ago
Well I mean it’s a disease agency. Missinformation on X is bad. Their job however is about getting the word out to people of what to do to avoid diseases. People don’t switch networks to follow their favorite health agencies. So… if the job is to warn people about serious shit… it kind of is important to be where the people are currently and try and get the facts heard among the misinformation.
DarkCloud@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I don’t think the people still on X are going to be listening to the EU disease agency account.
They should (as you say) go where the people are… Which is threads and BlueSky. Follow the crowd.
lennivelkant@discuss.tchncs.de 4 months ago
The (ideal) most reasonable approach for public information organs, in my opinion, would be to use all the channels that are available - Mastodon, Bluesky, Threads, but also X for the share of people that can’t be arsed to move (or don’t want to, because the people and communities they care about haven’t). I’d even count Facebook, Instagram, Reddit among those channels, as much as I resent those companies, as well as Lemmy and the other fediverse services (I’m not super informed here), a blog, RSS feeds, maybe an email subscription service too, just to be sure.
In fact, I think diversifying your presence would be a great thing in general - platform exclusivity is turning out to be a quite toxic and disadvantageous concept. Well, it has been for a while, but it’s starting to become more visible.
The real restriction is of course the technical infrastructure and personell to maintain all these presences. You could use of a content distribution system that takes a picture, a long text and a short summary to generate appropriate posts for all these platforms, but you’d still need people monitoring and responding on the various platforms, ideally people sufficiently familiar with the respective culture to communicate effectively.
whostosay@lemmy.world 4 months ago
The whole reason Twitter was popular was to be informed by the people you follow.
No one that is still there gives any sort of fuck about correct information, just bail. Stop legitimizing this Nazi bullhorn for God’s sake.
Wispy2891@lemmy.world 4 months ago
What’s the point then when the important information can’t be freely read by the population without a xitter account. It made sense when you could read tweets without forced login, but now is useless