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Waterloo City Hall abandons X. Says the platform is 'not a welcoming space' (www.therecord.com)
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[–] 11 points 4 months ago (1 child)

As the camera pans from the podium to an empty field, a tumbleweed rolls through the foreground.

Welcome to like at least 3 years in the past, Waterloo, when this should’ve been concluded.

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    • [–] 19 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    Great news even if way late, and I’m happy for them, but wtf is this “article”? One sentence reinforcing the headline plus a screenshot with no further info or elaboration? Really hoping my adblocker has just blanked the remainder of the article and the author actually quotes the city hall at some point, elaborates on twitter being a Nazi bar for those who live under a rock, and mentions where the city hall has chosen to post instead.

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  • [–] 6 points 4 months ago

    As far as where theyve chosen to post instead (from the article):

    Starting July 6, City of Waterloo announcements will be communicated on municipal websites and other social media already used by city hall such as Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, YouTube and Vimeo.

    City hall will maintain an X account but only to direct people elsewhere, Abbott said.

    [...]

    The city does not plan at this time to communicate on alternate platforms that have been established as alternatives to X.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago

    Great news even if way late

    Welcome to Kitchener/Cambridge-Waterloo, you just summed up the region fairly well.

    For pretty much being the tech hub of Ontario if not Canada they generally are pretty late to the game on various things. I blame Cambrdige though, the Heroin capital of Ontario if not Canada and I grew up there.

    It's such a god damn polarizing part of our country.

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    • [–] 7 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    The city does not plan at this time to communicate on alternate platforms that have been established as alternatives to X. 

    Sad

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  • [–] 15 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    I would be fine with public agencies just publishing an RSS feed and newsletter. Communities can pull those posts in and discuss them, but it hasnt been a great use of civil servants jobs to manage social media platforms.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago

    yea, part of me feels since they aren't planning to take up communication on another platform, that this was less about the hostility on the platform and more they didn't want to have to pay for the upkeep/social media team/processes to remain on the platform, and are using the hostilities as an excuse.

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    • [–] 3 points 4 months ago

    Waterloo, got off of X 'cause they needed to

    Waterloo, Elon's hellsite is too shit for you

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    [–] 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    They should quit July 4th but stopping is stopping.

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