Should politicians use mastodon instead of Twit… sorry… X? What do you think about it? I think if popular people (like politicians) start using fediverse, more people will become interested in this technology. If so, how do you convince them?

  • Kyyrypyy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    13·
    1 year ago

    There is nothing wrong with politicans using mastodon, and they will start using it when ex-twitter statistically show losing popularity. However, the same rules apply for the politicans, as does anyone else. That’s why they’ll probably start creating their own instances for their parties. And luckily people can decide to not to follow them (god I hated twitter when there was any local, or American voting going on. The promotional spam was unhinged).

    • mookulator@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      1 year ago

      It’d be really nice if they clustered by instance. Then one could theoretically follow all politicians in their favorite party without having to look them up manually.

      • Kyyrypyy@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        Quite precisely. This of course would cause a “bubble”, but would also preserve their unhinged posts for the media to highlight.

        And if they come to something like mastodon.social, many will mix up human right violations as “just your everyday political opinions”, and get the boot, so it’s more handier for them, as a party, to curate what the party represents.

  • skymtf@pricefield.orgEnglish
    9·
    1 year ago

    No! They will try to pass some legislation that bans anyone who doesn’t have an instance licence from hosting an instance and demand free speech absolutism

  • whataboutshutup@discuss.onlineEnglish
    6·
    1 year ago

    It’s more control over what your blog is and it’s important for businesses and agencies. Having .gov instances would make the grow and adoption spiral.

  • Gamey@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    Just look at the Turkey election, Twitter willingly cencored posts following corrupt cord orders! :(

  • southsamurai@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    Jfc, please don’t let them know it exists. There’s already too many people obsessed with politics on mastodon in particular.

    • Gamey@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Trueth Social seems closer tbh, maybe the name change and clear cut from the past isn’t even that bad!

  • Matthew@social.weyr.org.uk
    21·
    1 year ago

    @mypasswordis1234 At least they should run their own instance just like the BBC and Twitter/X has become unbareably toxic and a echo-chamber for nazi which was the main reasons why I left. Sadly, it meant I didn’t get as much updated about politics as I used to.

    This may be a pro/cons depending on their views about blocklist on the Fediverse as well. Some instances would not tolerance their political views and want nothing from them so that a thing they have to keep in mind before they jumped in to the Fediverse