Comment on UK government starting to think about leaving X

brachiosaurus@mander.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• palordrolap@fedia.io ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Surely you're not saying they shouldn't have had a Twitter presence?

  Or is this more of a "they should have left when Elon took over" kind of thing? In which case, they probably thought that the majority of people who follow(ed) them on there wouldn't have left immediately - not least because there weren't any good alternatives* at the time - so it would have made sense to maintain a presence, which I think is what's actually going on.

  * Yes, Mastodon existed, but you've got to think about the average person here. There's a reason the first people on there were academics and tech folks.

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  • rglullis@communick.news ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Surely you’re not saying they shouldn’t have had a Twitter presence

    No, they shouldn’t have a Twitter presence. All public institutions should require full authority over the domain used for mass communication.

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    • palordrolap@fedia.io ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      This is a bit like saying that governments shouldn't post notices in public places.

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      • rglullis@communick.news ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        How?

        Twitter is not a public place and has been looking more and more like the opposite of it. Nowadays you can not even go someone’s profile to browse their timeline without logging in.

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      • abeorch@friendica.ginestes.es ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        @palordrolap @rglullis @brachiosaurus Government should post things in publoc places but X and Facebook arent public. They are like shopping malls - free to talk into but put restrictions around what you can do, substitute public law for.private contractual agreements and they replace public justice for their abitrary decision making about behalviour and extract costs ( data, tracking, attention sellijg & emotional manulipulation) from visitors. All of these things are bad for citizen involvement.

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  • brachiosaurus@mander.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s the government, they spend millions of public money in pr, they should have never had a twitter account to begin with and should have used their own tools.

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    • palordrolap@fedia.io ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Government creates announcement feed. No-one knows about it because they can only advertise it on their own announcement feed.

      What now?

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      • abeorch@friendica.ginestes.es ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        @palordrolap @brachiosaurus They put it on their website and mention it in their communications. People and journalists sibscribe.

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