Comment on Labour MPs begin quitting X over ‘hate and disinformation’

• scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I mean there should be a mastodon.gov.uk

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  • CMLVI@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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.

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    • scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      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.

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      • CMLVI@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        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!

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  • cyborganism@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yeah, but then again, do you want a government controlled social media? 🤔

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    • veeesix@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The government could control social media on their own instance, sure.

      I think having government accounts come from an official instance would garner more trust in the platform.

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      • thesocavault@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        People don’t trust the government all the time, they are a bunch of sneaky buggers you know.

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    • scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It’s not… it’s the fediverse. I’m completely fine with them having their own instance, it’s not like they control it by any means. Hell they can be defederated. It’s a lot better than them choosing some random instance.

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      • cyborganism@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Then it should be only for government officials.

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    • alilbee@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I think the distributed nature of Mastodon keeps government control from being an issue. It would be kind of cool as a space for citizens to ask for assistance or air grievances while giving the politicians an officially owned space for things like announcements.

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      • Feathercrown@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Totally agree. The issues with “government-controlled social media” are a non-issue in a federated environment.

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    • Flamekebab@piefed.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I don't want a private company controlling government email servers, why would I want them to control government social media platforms?

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    • electricprism@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      What you don’t like pot holes in your roads? XD We can easily host our own server where the database password is already 123456

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