I don't understand why Governments and organizations aren't taking advantage of the Fediverse. Spin up an instance, set it have no comments/sign ups (no comments and no signs up means very little moderation). The Fediverse allows governments and organizations to fully control their instance.

It still amazes me after all the shit that Twitter has been through that people still use it.

The australian PM doesnt even have a public email address, the parliament website suggests contacting him on twitter

the same government who are constantly in a public fight with musk over the content on his website for respectable public figures lol

They should maybe have done that when it became clear the site was run by a Nazi, but better late then never.

It's time to start tooting instead!

It's basically government officials and news organizations having their main communication channels be on 4chan. That's where we're at. It's ridiculous.

The time to abandon Twitter was when it was created... Morally speaking, however, that time was after the Nazi that does Seig Heils bought it.

That’s the reason? Gosh.

I see X users these days as the frogs in the slow boiling pots.

I sense that some of the people who remain in X had some rationales. Those who liked what they saw in terms of abuse or bad behaviour would naturally stay for more.

Perhaps others felt their voices would resist mis/disinformation, or contribute to greater discussion. But, those who chose to stay, regardless of reason, ended up conditioning themselves to receive or disregard abuse beyond all sense.

Now the platform clearly violates its members, and Musk has once again affirmed publicly that he is a white supremacist. Users - including government accounts - who remain have unwittingly become members of an extremist, white supremacist website that peddles CSAM materials.

I think it's the stuff of movies, and something a villain, like the Joker, would have done.

archive.is link

I have been writing the MPs to get off of US big tech for a while.

Musk is a threat to the entire world I don’t understand why anyone would use anything from his overinflated Enron empire

Canadian “Senators” are a much different thing than American ones. Very weird to see it worded this way. As an Albertan myself I had to do a double take because I thought they were referring to MP’s as Senators.

We need to shame people more for still being on twitter .

Right below the headline and date on this Hill Times article, there's a share link promoting TwitterX.

It's good that newspaper (cover that someone) call out Government's silence and/or hypocrisy regarding X. It'd be better if newspapers themselves stopped using and promoting TwitterX

I still think that governments should have official Mastodon instances for MPs and government departments (as a replacement for the Blue Check) that they can use to easily get announcements and such out onto the fediverse.