Mastodon and politics, what do you think?

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• gelberhut@lemdro.id ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I think all officials should use it. Like they use emails: own domain (instance) + reachability/interactability for people without enforcing them to use service of specific company

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• Kyyrypyy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  There is nothing wrong with politicans using mastodon, and they will start using it when ex-twitter statistically show losing popularity. However, the same rules apply for the politicans, as does anyone else. That’s why they’ll probably start creating their own instances for their parties. And luckily people can decide to not to follow them (god I hated twitter when there was any local, or American voting going on. The promotional spam was unhinged).

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  • mookulator@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s be really nice if they clustered by instance. Then one could theoretically follow all politicians in their favorite party without having to look them up manually.

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    • Kyyrypyy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Quite precisely. This of course would cause a “bubble”, but would also preserve their unhinged posts for the media to highlight.

      And if they come to something like mastodon.social, many will mix up human right violations as “just your everyday political opinions”, and get the boot, so it’s more handier for them, as a party, to curate what the party represents.

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• yuki2501@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Only if they pay for their own instance.

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  • Gamey@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Well, the EU dose so for quite a while but many aren’t using it jet!

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• skymtf@pricefield.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  No! They will try to pass some legislation that bans anyone who doesn’t have an instance licence from hosting an instance and demand free speech absolutism

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• whataboutshutup@discuss.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It’s more control over what your blog is and it’s important for businesses and agencies. Having .gov instances would make the grow and adoption spiral.

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• miklo@soc.citizen4.eu ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  @mypasswordis1234 Politicians will not popularise the fediverse. If they are here, it is purely out of sheer interest. And that interest will never allow them to write, for example, on Facebook or Twitter "this is a toxic place - come try the fediverse with me".

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• carl@artemis.camp ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I think we should see a complete shift to federated digital public discourse, rather than being locked in prisoners of somebody elses proprietary service. Including politics, civil society and the rest. Ive written some on the topic here.

  https://carlheath.se/time-of-change-now-is-the-time-for-an-open-digital-society/

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• pogosort@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I wouldn't recommend it unless moderation grows more robust and there's a clear way to deal with legal issues such as uploaded CSAM/CSEM.

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• Gamey@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Just look at the Turkey election, Twitter willingly cencored posts following corrupt cord orders! :(

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• southsamurai@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Jfc, please don’t let them know it exists. There’s already too many people obsessed with politics on mastodon in particular.

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• Zoldyck@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  They should. Also, just call it Twitter, because that’s what it is.

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  • Gamey@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Trueth Social seems closer tbh, maybe the name change and clear cut from the past isn’t even that bad!

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