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Good. They should abandon twitter and all other racist, misogynist, transphobic, xenophobic, homophobic bigoted platforms. I hope they have a bad time there.
I tend to feel the same but at the same time, the shadowy figures involved there would love it to see the ratio of extremist increase. An exodus of more sane members might play straight into their hands.
That said, I can’t understand why anyone without an official state role is still on that platform.
Political parties should host their own mastodon instances, and give their members accounts. Companies should do the same. It removes all the problems of imitation because the organisation stands as guarantor that the account is the official one.
That’s actually a pretty good idea
How much can this be abused before it is overdue to treat X as a common carrier?
why is this being downvoted?
Because people know who you are.
How much can you bullshit before you answer anyone’s questions?
I’m childish and downvote anyone who refers to twitter as “x”. It’s like you’re on your knees licking Elons bum, right after he told you to call it x, you did what you were told lol.
Also I never got on the twitter bandwagon as it just didn’t appeal to me. My social media addiction was reddit.
Twitter sucks. X is a letter. Or a variable in algebra.
Oh dear. If I were I wouldn’t be advocating for the government to effectively seize Twitter. I hated the nepo apartheid baby before it was cool.
Oh I’ll give you that, I’d love the gov to seize it and make it a public utility. First order of business is put the name back to twitter because duh. And bring back the little blue bird cuz it reminds me of birdie sanders.
Ain’t gonna happen though lol.
Oh noooo…
Stop using fucking Twitter
Can’t believe Biden let the world know his decision first on Twitter, even before the White house Press office.
I used to think “Elon Musk” was some type of fancy French perfume. I miss those days.
It still could be!
Viva la revolution?
do the entire world a favor and delete twitter already
I’m surprised she even has one, given that Musk would shadow ban it anyway. Seems like wasted effort.
Yeah if I were depending on Twitter I would have been informing people of my plans to move for months now.
Why don’t they use mastodon also?
:(
(Note, Nov ‘23)
in november of 23, i had a client that let me schedule mastodon posts. this was not made by someone who uses mastodon.
…but these people just use it as a way of talking to the media. As long as people of power and influence shift, so will the press, and then so will everyone else.
Home many times do you hear “Trump, on his platform truth.social, said…”? They’ve gone there because he’s gone there.
Data source: WIkipedia??? Wikipedia is not a source ffs
We’re not doing a research paper. We’re commenting on a internet post. Calm down.
Found my English teacher
You can argue the veracity of looking the user count of the platforms on wikipedia, but it is a source.
What I’m saying is that on twitter they could promote the mastodon account
The EU has an instance
If only the federal government could implement some sort of server that would allow them to self-host social media for officials and prominent candidates. I wish there were some well-known and tested service that other governments were using and they could just implement in the USA.
Sounds impossible! Does this technology even exist???
If they build it, will anyone come? Or does private social media only work because the user base is already scrolling endlessly there?
@XeroxCool welcome to fediverse. I’m replying to you from mastodon.
Posted multiple times because replication was slow. Oops.
Also now I’m posting from lemm.ee
I’m using motion controls!
I’m using the Power Glove!
It’s so bad.
I mean, it wouldn’t stop them from continuing ti post to Xitter. They can do both!
if they build it, the press will go there and report on what’s posted there
Yeah wouldn’t be bad. Could be an official source to cite.
If only there was some
SovietUnion with their own mastodonI don’t think legally the Federal Government is allowed to do that. Maybe if the service is available to everyone. Now that option would be pretty cool. I’m fine with nationalized federated social media hosts.
are you allowed to post on whitehouse.gov?
That sounds pretty shakey. Federal employees have their own email addresses, but you can’t just go ask for a .gov email address, you have to get a job with the government for one. The federal government has plenty of places that only some are allowed to post to. Now, if they were to say, only allow certain people to have accounts with no apperent rhyme or reason that would be grounds for a discrimination lawsuit, but they could simply say “any verified current or former federal elected official, federal department head, or state governor is allowed an account” and expand or shrink the scope as needed. The fediverse honestly makes that so much cleaner than something they host themselves with all of the nuances of what is and isn’t federated, the government could simply configure the federation to meet their legal and liability needs while users can stream in from any fediverse instance
If they’re using it for campaigning, I think it’d have to be written as “… or any party nominee” or “… or anyone running for elected office.”
But yeah, the fediverse would be perfect for it.
I hope she isn’t a Zionist also…
Rheeeeeeee
Yeah, I have a problem too! No, wait. It’s because I don’t have an X/Twitter/whatever account.
i followed it just fine on threads.
Is it possible to follow the Threads account from the Fediverse?
yes, but it’s one-way: your content won’t be integrated back in, so you aren’t part of the conversation.
For now. They’re working on it.
As much as I don’t want Meta to be part of the fediverse, it’s still exciting seeing federation being considered by a major tech company.
i don’t think right now as it doesn’t seem like they’ve enabled federation from threads on their account
That sucks, @potus account seems to have it enabled. @vp should do it as well.
Imagine trying winning chess when the board itself plays against you. Twitter/X must be dropped immediately, it’s a censorship-propaganda machine which is now only works for those who control it.
Wasn’t that the case when progressives controlled it? Either way, fk X and all other social media services.
Jack Dorsey was a progressive?
Anything left of “pretend minorities don’t exist” is progressive to certain people.
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey: I ‘fully admit’ our bias is ‘more left-leaning’
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey said on Saturday that he “fully admit[s]” Twitter employees share a largely left-leaning bias after facing accusations that conservatives are discriminated against on the social media platform.
In an interview that aired Saturday on CNN, Dorsey said his company has a responsibility to be open about its political viewpoints, but to operate without bias when applying content policies to users.
”We need to constantly show that we are not adding our own bias, which I fully admit is … is more left-leaning,” Dorsey says.
Ah.
So you’re a “Libs of TikTok” guy. Conservatives call themselves Liberal and you believe them.
Jack Dorsey is Libertarian, which is Republican-leaning.
lol… Libertarians are classical liberals. They don’t align to a specific side.
Libertarians nominated a degenerate Democrat.
And why the FK are we talking about Jack anyway? I said Twitter was controlled by progressives… as in the majority of the org were leftists operating biasedly against their opposition.
And yeah Libs of TikTok is amazing. Hope more and more exposure continues until the filth is ousted.
Defending the Libs of TikTok isn’t the flex you think it is.
I’m only responding in the hopes you recognize this eventually and grow a bit of self-reflection over this situation. Good luck man.
I support anyone and everyone that exposes any and all facets of evil. So should you and any other sane human being.
Dunno, but echoes of it were sounding like Tumblr 2.0
This reminds me that someone set up a donation link via actblue where donations via that link come with the message that she and her campaign should set up their own mastodon server.
They are up to $40,000 as I type this.
So if you were thinking of donating anyway, you can go through here to point that money to a “cause” you want her to consider. May not happen, but at least we might get it on their radar.
https://secure.actblue.com/donate/mastodon-for-harris
The originator of this started with this Masto post:
The VP having control over the platform they announce things?
What a novel idea /s
So dumb how much power twitter got for politics. Fediverse for life!
Share this on !fediverse, this is a very good idea
This has the opportunity to be a great battle.
Harris, backed by Mastodon users vs Trump, backed by Twitter bots.
Isn’t Truth Social essentially just out-of-the-box Mastodon?
wtf is this journalism??? one guy on twitter said that so now its confirmed. Just tried it and works fine. Do people just upvote this because they hate Elon Musk and want this to be true?
Weird right? You’d think they might check. Then they would be able to write something like this.
An initial search for KamalaHQ on The New Republic’s X account also found that the campaign account is limited. The campaign account showed up in repeated subsequent searches, seeming to suggest the issue is being resolved.
Yeah, turns out it was an automated response to the account getting too many follows in a short time. There’s enough genuinely bad things about the platform that we don’t need to get mad at some speculation.
I’m not down the perpetual victim-blaming against X/Twitter users here on Lemmy.
Sources like campaigns, news outlets, authors, studios, engineers, actors, comedians, etc. post on there because they basically have to – if they want to get the word out, that is.
Consumers go there to read from the sources because they basically have to. While each source may have their own separate blog or whatever, X/Twitter is pretty much the only place that unifies those feeds. (I know, I miss the heyday of RSS too.)
Expecting people to just “take the hit” and go dark on their communications so we can build up alternatives to X/Twitter is not an acceptable recommendation.
What we need to do is:
- Make it illegal to block third-party clients from interoperating with services
- Compel providers of a certain size to expose a first-party API
- Make it legal to reverse-engineer APIs so they can’t just make the first-party API suck and call it a day
- Then we integrate X/Twitter into the fediverse, so you can start using something else and still keep your X/Twitter stuff
Victim blaming is a little extreme way to describe it, but yeah I don’t blame politicians for using it, but I absolutely will blame them for exclusively using it and letting their media be controlled by a private entity, especially one that is no longer publicly accessible.
POSSE (publish [on your] own site, syndicate everywhere) is the way to go. Don’t assume everyone is just using a platform, especially if you’re providing a public or essential service.
re your points, I think the EU’s gatekeeper law was pretty good.
By the way, not calling you out specifically. Just seems to be a common theme in the comments, and a regularly-occurring sentiment.
Twitter isn’t a service. It is a useful platform and should not be ignored, but it is a larger, worldwide version of r/conservative at this point. Go in expecting hostility and “untraceable account bugs that tHeY juST cANt seEm tO ResOLve!”.
What we need to do is: Make it illegal to run a business
Twitter doesn’t owe anyone anything. Kamala could go post anywhere else but she’s not even though the left hates Elon.
The idea that we should pass laws to force twitter to show certain info and expose endpoints to support third party apps is ridiculous. It’s their data and they aren’t putting a gun to anyone’s head.
Passing a law forcing the government to use only FLOSS software for day-to-day activities solves this problem, actually makes sense on a principle level and isn’t a ridiculous overreach of power.
FLOSS software
Lol
‘Lol’ Three simple characters. “FLOSS software? Ridiculous. So DUMB.” He says to himself. Finally a single tap and his snarky comment begins it’s instantaneous travail through countless GPL licensed unix systems to reach his victim - an ignorant commenter on an open-source, federated lemmy instance.
Well, I gotta ask then… How do you feel about HP’s printer business model? The fact that you can only use it with HP-approved ink, in HP-approved ways. Do you think that’s a fair business model which will stand or fall on its own merits, or an abusive one that prevents consumers from using their own stuff the way they want to? Should it be legal?
I don’t like it and wouldn’t buy an HP as my next printer for software reasons alone. I’d suggest supporting another company or getting a used HP for free or next to nothing and buying refilled cartridges from aliexpress or amazon for 30-40% of what HP charges (this is what I do). It’s a shitty practice but it doesn’t make me want to get daddy government involved.
“Right to Repair” is different. If I buy a printer and the ink chassis breaks and I’m capable of sourcing a part and fixing it myself then I have a right to do that on my own because it’s mine.
