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.
Comment on EU disease agency considers quitting Elon Musk’s X over disinfo
TheFogan@programming.dev 2 days agoWell 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.
whostosay@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Wispy2891@lemmy.world 1 day 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
DarkCloud@lemmy.world 2 days 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 1 day 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.