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.

[–] CrypticCoffee@lemmy.ml 6 points 7 months ago

Can you explain this point?

[–] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 40 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

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?"

[–] perviouslyiner@lemmy.world 32 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

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"

[–] drdabbles@lemmy.world 19 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

Also, I don't believe a significant number of them actually will.

[–] Flamekebab@piefed.social 18 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Don't enable his embarrassing nonsense by calling Twitter "X".

[–] perviouslyiner@lemmy.world 8 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

unfortunately their current style guide results in this headline.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 16 points 7 months ago (1 children)

checks watch

Uh, sure. Now is good. Several years ago was better, but, yeah.

[–] NickwithaC@lemmy.world 10 points 7 months ago

The second best time is now.

[–] Venicon@lemmy.world 14 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Have barely touched Twitter since Muskification ruined it.

Threads is okay but Mastodon would be brill with more interaction.

[–] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Bluesky is really nice. It’s like mastodon but with an algorithm. Still decentralised and FOSS. Plus it bridges with mastodon well.

[–] sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyz 5 points 7 months ago

I love that there are so many options for nuSocial tbh. Federation rocks.

[–] Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

They really just should have used ActivityPub

[–] lil@lemy.lol 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

ActivityPub is very bad

[–] Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 7 months ago

Any reasons for that?

[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

it bridges with mastodon well

Does Bluesky use ActivityPub?

[–] mke@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

No, they use the Authenticated Tranfer protocol (atproto) which they developed, but I believe it's well documented.

[–] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 7 months ago

No.

But bridgy works well

[–] Beaver@lemmy.ca 14 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I hope the canadian mps and mlas follow suit.

[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 3 points 7 months ago

Same. I wish other public figures and journalists would as well.

[–] ruk_n_rul@monyet.cc 9 points 7 months ago

Is it finally time? The beginning of the end?

[–] samokosik@lemmy.world 8 points 7 months ago

It’s rare to see such a big fuck up as with twitter…

[–] otter@lemmy.ca 8 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] arudesalad@sh.itjust.works 6 points 7 months ago

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"

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 7 points 7 months ago

Uh oh, some MPs are about to get sued.

[–] Churbleyimyam@lemm.ee 6 points 7 months ago

They could start their own fediverse instance and ruthless ban users who have ever agreed with Jeremy Corbyn.

[–] cows_are_underrated@feddit.org 5 points 7 months ago

Why does no one mention Mastodon AS an alternative(from the MPs)

[–] thesocavault@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

Labour MP's need to put their grown up pants on and work for the people instead of being emotional about a platform.