The only alternatives mentioned were Threads and Bluesky.
about time…
Start pushing for mastodon! Honestly there should be an official mastodon instance
I mean there should be a mastodon.gov.uk
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.
Yeah, but then again, do you want a government controlled social media? 🤔
Be careful. He might sue saying you have to use the platform. He’ll claim that not using it hurts his free speech.
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.
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.
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?”
Politicians and public should consider quitting X, says Liverpool mayor
“The time is approaching where we’ve got to all examine whether we should, en masse, withdraw from it and for there to be a different platform”
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.
