Exclusive: MPs leaving platform or scaling back use over its ‘deterioration’ under Elon Musk’s ownership

The only alternatives mentioned were Threads and Bluesky.

        • CMLVI@lemmy.worldEnglish
          21·
          4 months ago

          That’s…actually a cool AF idea/inplementation of Fediverse shit. A practical use as well, as they’d control who was on the instance and would be a sorta pseudo-verification process for any accounts on it’s own.

          • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
            31·
            4 months ago

            I think it’s perfect for governments. You can subscribe anywhere, you know it’s legit, and that’s a much better way to do notifications than twitter.

            • CMLVI@lemmy.worldEnglish
              4·
              4 months ago

              Yeah I’m not entirely well-versed in the implications of what that would allow, but it’s another use-case that would be cool to see!

        • Cyborganism@lemmy.caEnglish
          314·
          5 months ago

          Yeah, but then again, do you want a government controlled social media? 🤔

          • veee@lemmy.caEnglish
            45·
            5 months ago

            The government could control social media on their own instance, sure.

            I think having government accounts come from an official instance would garner more trust in the platform.

          • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
            26·
            5 months ago

            It’s not… it’s the fediverse. I’m completely fine with them having their own instance, it’s not like they control it by any means. Hell they can be defederated. It’s a lot better than them choosing some random instance.

          • a lil bee 🐝@lemmy.worldEnglish
            16·
            5 months ago

            I think the distributed nature of Mastodon keeps government control from being an issue. It would be kind of cool as a space for citizens to ask for assistance or air grievances while giving the politicians an officially owned space for things like announcements.

            • Feathercrown@lemmy.worldEnglish
              13·
              5 months ago

              Totally agree. The issues with “government-controlled social media” are a non-issue in a federated environment, and the URL would give them legitimacy.

          • Flamekebab@piefed.social
            41·
            4 months ago

            I don’t want a private company controlling government email servers, why would I want them to control government social media platforms?

          • electricprism@lemmy.mlEnglish
            2·
            5 months ago

            What you don’t like pot holes in your roads? XD We can easily host our own server where the database password is already 123456

  • John Richard@lemmy.worldEnglish
    463·
    5 months ago

    Be careful. He might sue saying you have to use the platform. He’ll claim that not using it hurts his free speech.

    • perviouslyiner@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      13·
      4 months ago

      Yeah, not sure the UK Labour party are going to be receptive to a free speech argument, given recent events. If anything, an updated law might make X liable for the real-world problems it causes.

        • flamingos-cant@feddit.ukEnglish
          201·
          5 months ago

          There was/is a wave of far-right riots happening in the UK, which involved a lot lotting and attacks on Muslims. This was triggered by a stabbing in Southport and a lie that spread on social media claiming that the perpetrator was a Muslim migrant that came to the UK on a ‘small boat’ crossing the channel (he was actually born and grew up in Cardiff). Musk may be liable because during the riots he made several posts undermining the government’s attempts to quell the unrest and his general failure to tackle disinformation spreading on Twitter, such as the Muslim migrant lie.

          • CrypticCoffee@lemmy.mlEnglish
            31·
            4 months ago

            Fair point. I thought you were implying the opposite.

            I read it as implying Labour is anti-free speech for clamping down on racist hate speech and mob mentality.

            • John Richard@lemmy.worldEnglish
              17·
              4 months ago

              Arresting people for things they say even when they aren’t threats is anti-free speech and the UK and many European countries do not allow free speech. You can be arrested for even saying Israelis genociding Palestinians are Nazis.

              • CrypticCoffee@lemmy.mlEnglish
                3·
                4 months ago

                No you cannot. Assuming you’re not from the UK.

                Stirring up racial hatred and geeing people up to burn down hotels holding refugees is not free speech.

                • John Richard@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  15·
                  4 months ago

                  I specifically said things that aren’t threats. Just because you don’t like what they say doesn’t mean that it isn’t free speech.

  • Feathercrown@lemmy.worldEnglish
    401·
    5 months ago

    People in the UK need to start pushing Mastodon hard. You could use the tagline “You don’t want to switch services again in a few years, do you?”

  • Dr. Dabbles@lemmy.worldEnglish
    19·
    5 months ago

    Only now? It’s been two years of this and now they’ve had too much? No partial credit should be given for people that continued to participate when it was clear what was happening.

  • Venicon@lemmy.worldEnglish
    14·
    5 months ago

    Have barely touched Twitter since Muskification ruined it.

    Threads is okay but Mastodon would be brill with more interaction.

    • arudesalad@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      6·
      4 months ago

      Depends on the writer, chances are that those in the bbc who are involved with the mastodon instance are the nerds (like us) and the writer of this article doesn’t know as much and is just listing the places the MPs went, and they are politicians so they wouldn’t know about the “nerdy options”

  • Churbleyimyam@lemm.eeEnglish
    7·
    4 months ago

    They could start their own fediverse instance and ruthless ban users who have ever agreed with Jeremy Corbyn.