Submitted 4 months ago by anothermember@lemmy.zip to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk
Other MPs who still use X have begun examining alternatives, including Threads, which is owned by Facebook’s parent company, Meta, and the open-source platform Bluesky.
So near, yet so far. They had an enshittification sandwich and instead of swearing off it, they are wondering if they just need less nuts and more sweetcorn.
Politicians need to cater to normies.
Everyone (including my wife) think of me as awkwardly difficult and deviant for not being on the “normal convenient” platforms like everyone else.
This
Divorce her.
Kidding of course. My partner has the same atritude.
But I have gotten her to use linux. Mainly by building her a PC and telling her if she wants windows she can sort it herself.
Mean but works.
Personally, Threads is the only social meedia platform where the content on it generally improves my mood by showing me lots of funny, cute or interesting content. It’s the only one where I don’t feel frustrated or angry or outraged by the content the algorithm surfaces or baited. It feels like the feed wants me to smile and cheer up or learn something new, rather than baiting me into getting angry and shouting at people. That counts for a lot, to me.
People still use twitter?
People used twitter?
People still use twitter?
towerful@programming.dev 4 months ago
Good.
Governments should run their own mastadon instances, and provide official accounts for all their public servants, staff, whatever they are called, as well as an account for each agency.
But quitting twitter is a good first step
Streamwave@feddit.uk 4 months ago
Interestingly, the European Union has been doing exactly this for about a year now on an experimental basis.
…europa.eu/…/social-media-connect-european-commis…
uk.pcmag.com/…/eu-joins-mastodon-social-network-s…
edps.europa.eu/…/edps-decentralised-social-media-…
HumanPenguin@feddit.uk 4 months ago
I agree. But this is labour MPs. MP != Government even when members of leading party. Only those with ministerial positions are in government.
As Members of parliament outside ministerial government positions are considered to have free speech and not to be representing the government when speaking, The choice of communication media must be down to the individuals.
echodot@feddit.uk 4 months ago
Can you imagine the conservatives trying to work it? Mogg famously didn’t use a computer