EU needs to run own instance of Mastodon officially and have ALL European politicians on it and go off X entirely. Posting anything on X is supporting nazi Elon.
this post was submitted on 02 May 2025
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Hell, I'd even settle for them using something like postybirb to multi-post across all three platforms.
Bonus points if the ones going to twitter are cut off mid-sentence and replaced with a URL to the official mastodon post.
That would be a nice touch.
Twitter would ban such Tweets.
Only for normal users. Politicians will likely get a white glove treatment due to the media shitstorm they could invoke.
The Commission already has an instance and the ECJ also has an instance. I didn't find one for the parliament, they might not even want to have one but instead leave it to the parties. A parliament instance would amount to the EP president policing parliamentarian's speech not just inside parliament but also outside of it, kinda iffy.
Is there a list of more popular decentralized platform and their equivalent?
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Reddit -> lemmy
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Twitter -> Mastodon
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FB -> ??
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Discord -> ??
Matrix is a fuck. I sometimes use it. Way to buggy for general use
Mastodon can also replace the main FB feed. Matrix would be the closest alternative for Discord, but it has its share of problems.
Social Media is an entirely different game if you're not doing it for manipulation purposes. At scale, government operated social media fails, due to lack of or excess moderation. Social media works because it triggers emotions. People go there to hate. Mastodon is methadone for these junkies.
I don't even understand why anyone would trust any self-published metrics from this scam artist.
Not enough I'm afraid.
Took way too fucking long, how are people still on there unless they are total Nazis and racists.
To be fair against mastodon the "mastodonservers.net" (first result on DuckDuckGo when looking up "mastodon instance list") does list an instance featuring primarily pornographic content first (as far as I can tell this is because it list by usercount in decending order), which could be off putting to some people.
The first Google result for the same query "instances.social" is a list, but in the non legacy non advanced view has almost completely non-functional filters.
Neither of these are "joinmastodon.org" which is probably the best website for someone trying to join mastodon, considering it appears to be ran by the developers.
People still don't know what Mastodon is. I mentioned it recently and someone asked, "isn't it mostly white supremacists?"
I have stopped using twitter. Is that enough or do I need to delete my account somehow?
Delete!
Empty it and delete it
That's sad news. It still had 11 million users.
Do better EU. You can lose all your subscriptions to musks Nazi platforms.
lol they claimed some time back to have 3 billion users, so I’m sure this 11 million is no big deal.
Because half of the entire human population has a Twitter account.
Nah, this seems like a big deal. Not necessarily "imminent doom for Twitter" big, but still. Social media platforms live and die on network effects, and none (that I'm aware of) has ever successfully "forced" their own viability without having naturally strong network effects.
Network effects work in favor of signups and engagement of course, but they work on the downswing too, they can accelerate abandonment and replacement.
Yeah it’s definitely a big problem for them. I was being sarcastic above. There’s no way they have 3 billion users.
Whoops 😅