Labour MPs begin quitting X over ‘hate and disinformation’

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• scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  about time…

  Start pushing for mastodon! Honestly there should be an official mastodon instance

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  • cyborganism@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You mean mstdn.social?

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    • scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I mean there should be a mastodon.gov.uk

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• timewarp@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Be careful. He might sue saying you have to use the platform. He’ll claim that not using it hurts his free speech.

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  • perviouslyiner@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah, not sure the UK Labour party are going to be receptive to a free speech argument after his comments inciting the recent riots.

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    • CrypticCoffee@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Can you explain this point?

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• Feathercrown@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  People in the UK need to start pushing Mastodon hard. You could use the tagline “You don’t want to do this again in a few years, do you?”

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• perviouslyiner@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Also in the news today, 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”

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• drdabbles@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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.

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  • ripcord@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Also, I don’t believe a significant number of them actually will.

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• Flamekebab@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Don't enable his embarrassing nonsense by calling Twitter "X".

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  • perviouslyiner@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    unfortunately their style guide results in this headline.

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• homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  checks watch

  Uh, sure. Now is good. Several years ago was better, but, yeah.

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  • NickwithaC@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The second best time is now.

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• Venicon@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Have barely touched Twitter since Muskification ruined it.

  Threads is _okay_but Mastodon would be brill with more interaction.

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  • FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Bluesky is really nice. It’s like mastodon but with an algorithm. Still decentralised and FOSS. Plus it bridges with mastodon well.

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    • sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I love that there are so many options for nuSocial tbh. Federation rocks.

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    • Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      They really just should have used ActivityPub

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    • threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      it bridges with mastodon well

      Does Bluesky use ActivityPub?

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• Beaver@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I hope the canadian mps and mlas follow suit.

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  • threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Same. I wish other public figures and journalists would as well.

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• Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  If they actually worried about hate and disinformation they would have quit before it was called X.

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• ruk_n_rul@monyet.cc ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Is it finally time? The beginning of the end?

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• samokosik@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s rare to see such a big fuck up as with twitter…

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• otter@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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

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  • arudesalad@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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”

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• Churbleyimyam@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  They could start their own fediverse instance and ruthless ban users who have ever agreed with Jeremy Corbyn.

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• cows_are_underrated@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Why does no one mention Mastodon AS an alternative(from the MPs)

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• thesocavault@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Labour MP’s need to put their grown up pants on and work for the people instead of being emotional about a platform.

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