The German Rhineland-Palatinate State Parliament has ditched X (Twitter) in favour of open-source decentralised Mastodon

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• ComptitiveSubset@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This is great news. Algorithm optimized social networks are poison to society.

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  • glacier@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    If algorithms are are not the default option and are not designed to generate profit for platforms and advertisers, then perhaps they could be a healthy way to discover new content

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    • 10EXP@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      • Need to allow some level of user customisability.

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• gonzoknowsdotcom1@monero.town ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  you can’t even view tweets on Twitter/x without being logged in now

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  • jivandabeast@lemmy.browntown.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Use nitter!

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    • gonzoknowsdotcom1@monero.town ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I do

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• jugalator@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The EU itself also has a Mastodon instance with the funny, overly clear name of social.network.europa.eu

  But only the institution of EU, not for EU residents.

  I like this idea because it becomes very easy to verify authenticity especially now that verification badges on X is just subscription badges without verification. You simply set up a subdomain of the form social.country.tld and you’ll know forename.surname@social.country.tld is an authentic representative for a political party or whatever. No money involved other than running the instance, which will be a tiny cost for something as niche as one offering a voice for the parliament.

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• CoolSouthpaw@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Good, fuck Twitter, that fucking piece of shit platform. Fuck Elon Musk too.

  And no, I’m not calling it X, or whatever bullshit name they come up with next.

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• fne8w2ah@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Obligatory fuck Phoney Stark.

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• 30mag@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  What is attractive for many organisations and agencies on Mastodon, is that they can better control their own message, and can be sure that on their sites there won’t be something embarrassing to them right next to their posts

  What?

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  • paraphrand@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    They will likely have their own instance. That’s their own website.

    Sure, you can subscribe to them. But that’s different from being the the algorithmic soup that is Twitter.

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    • variaatio@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Well checking it up they don’t actually have their own instance. Instead they arranged an account on the social.bund.de instance, which is run by the German Federal Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information (BfDI) for purpose of offering official accounts to german governmental entities.

      What makes it still “less likely something bad is right next to them” is exactly, that only government official and officials can get accounts on that instance and is for official use only. So thus it’s a sterile controlled instance.

      I’m sure they could have also spun their own instance, but well bund.de service was already running one anyway so just hop on that band wagon.

      I think this will become a more common thing. Governments run a national “official business” instance, where there is only official communications accounts of various government bodies and goverment officers (The official account of the office of the Presidency of the country, the official account of the Prime minister of the country and so on).

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    • 30mag@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Thanks. I guess I need to go read about it some. I don’t understand how that works.

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  • jugalator@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Haha I think they might be talking of how Mastodon doesn’t insert ads or bought posts right next to your own posts, so a professional institution like a parliament no longer risks having erection pills next to a post by a political party leader.

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• Kevnyon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Well I finally did get an invite to Bluesky, so I’m using that… Just need it to open for more people, because shit is barren right now. Let’s hope either that or Mastodon blow up soon. I’ve really been enjoying Bluesky, the layout is so similar to Twitter.

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  • Corgana@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    BlueSky is for-profit, not decentralized, the CEO is a crypto fanatic and Jack Dorsey sits on the board. It is literally just Twitter 2 if not worse.

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    • drbluefall@toast.ooo ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Which is a shame, because the AT Protocol does look interesting on a technical level…

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