The only alternatives mentioned were Threads and Bluesky.
Have barely touched Twitter since Muskification ruined it.
Threads is okay but Mastodon would be brill with more interaction.
Bluesky is really nice. It’s like mastodon but with an algorithm. Still decentralised and FOSS. Plus it bridges with mastodon well.
They really just should have used ActivityPub
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Any reasons for that?
I love that there are so many options for nuSocial tbh. Federation rocks.
it bridges with mastodon well
Does Bluesky use ActivityPub?
No, they use the Authenticated Tranfer protocol (atproto) which they developed, but I believe it’s well documented.
No.
But bridgy works well
It’s rare to see such a big fuck up as with twitter…
If they actually worried about hate and disinformation they would have quit before it was called X.
Why does no one mention Mastodon AS an alternative(from the MPs)
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”
Don’t enable his embarrassing nonsense by calling Twitter “X”.
unfortunately their current style guide results in this headline.
I hope the canadian mps and mlas follow suit.
Same. I wish other public figures and journalists would as well.
Labour MPs begin quitting X over ‘hate and disinformation’
Why does this happen? Lemmy doesn’t get mentioned in articles, but Lemmy is still fairly small. Last I checked, Mastodon is doing well against the competitors. BBC even has an experimental instance
https://www.bbc.com/rd/blog/2023-07-mastodon-distributed-decentralised-fediverse-activitypub
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”
Labour MP’s need to put their grown up pants on and work for the people instead of being emotional about a platform.
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
Yeah, but then again, do you want a government controlled social media? 🤔
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
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.
Totally agree. The issues with “government-controlled social media” are a non-issue in a federated environment, and the URL would give them legitimacy.
I don’t want a private company controlling government email servers, why would I want them to control government social media platforms?
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.
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
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 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!
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Uh, sure. Now is good. Several years ago was better, but, yeah.
The second best time is now.
They could start their own fediverse instance and ruthless ban users who have ever agreed with Jeremy Corbyn.
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?”
Is it finally time? The beginning of the end?
Uh oh, some MPs are about to get sued.
