The only alternatives mentioned were Threads and Bluesky.
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?”
Uh oh, some MPs are about to get sued.
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.
Can you explain this point?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
It’s rare to see such a big fuck up as with twitter…
about time…
Start pushing for mastodon! Honestly there should be an official mastodon instance
You mean mstdn.social?
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.
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.
Yeah, but then again, do you want a government controlled social media? 🤔
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.
Then it should be only for government officials.
Correct. It would only be for government officials, so anyone federated with them would know that they are in fact, validated as the government official.
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.
People don’t trust the government all the time, they are a bunch of sneaky buggers you know.
This is healthy attitude but irrelevant to the point
Labour MP’s need to put their grown up pants on and work for the people instead of being emotional about a platform.
