Submitted 22 hours ago by Joker@sh.itjust.works to technology@lemmy.world
French regional daily Ouest-France, the top-selling paper in the country, is the latest in a string of European publications to suspend posts on X, formerly Twitter. The social media platform is accused of enabling the spread of disinformation under its owner Elon Musk, an ally of US president-elect Donald Trump.
Pathetic that this is the first. Get your shit together French news outlets.
Interesting, I think they legitimately don't know what they'll do instead:
"Strictly speaking, there are no alternatives to what X offers today," Vincent Berthier, head of the technology department at RSF (Reporters Without Borders) told AFP.
"But we may need to invent them."
I imagine they'll end up on Bluesky, possibly also on Mastodon?
Bluesky most likely, I don’t see mastodon happening unless there is a major change in how the network addresses moderation and defederation.
Honestly, for big orgs like that I feel like a federating their website just makes sense to me.
That way they can host the content (resilience to censor ship) and can still natively share it.
And honestly, it may really help Mastodon out if people join it specifically to get at the content here.
French are using Twitter a lot. Even people that are considered pretty far to the left. I’ve tried to discuss this with a few french connections I have and it’s always “but that’s where the people are”…
I never understood Twitter. I tried it for like a almost a month and eventually forgot my password and just didn’t care anymore.
But when I did use it, you make a tweet or comment and then either no one responds to it, or like a hundred people respond with mostly vitriol or just total confusion, not even relating to your comment.
Slaves to fash3
Let’s get on the fediverse
X the everything (except the guardian, ouest-france etc.) app
Wait, all others still do?
Doubt it
Here, a baguette : ##########
That’s a centipede.
How dare you, it identifies as a baguette
astropenguin5@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
Took em long enough