Should politicians use mastodon instead of Twit… sorry… X? What do you think about it? I think if popular people (like politicians) start using fediverse, more people will become interested in this technology. If so, how do you convince them?
There is nothing wrong with politicans using mastodon, and they will start using it when ex-twitter statistically show losing popularity. However, the same rules apply for the politicans, as does anyone else. That’s why they’ll probably start creating their own instances for their parties. And luckily people can decide to not to follow them (god I hated twitter when there was any local, or American voting going on. The promotional spam was unhinged).
It’d be really nice if they clustered by instance. Then one could theoretically follow all politicians in their favorite party without having to look them up manually.
Quite precisely. This of course would cause a “bubble”, but would also preserve their unhinged posts for the media to highlight.
And if they come to something like mastodon.social, many will mix up human right violations as “just your everyday political opinions”, and get the boot, so it’s more handier for them, as a party, to curate what the party represents.
Only if they pay for their own instance.
No! They will try to pass some legislation that bans anyone who doesn’t have an instance licence from hosting an instance and demand free speech absolutism
It’s more control over what your blog is and it’s important for businesses and agencies. Having .gov instances would make the grow and adoption spiral.
