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@cyu@sh.itjust.works to Technology@lemmy.mlEnglish • 2 years ago

The German Rhineland-Palatinate State Parliament has ditched X (Twitter) in favour of open-source decentralised Mastodon

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The German Rhineland-Palatinate State Parliament has ditched X (Twitter) in favour of open-source decentralised Mastodon

gadgeteer.co.za

@cyu@sh.itjust.works to Technology@lemmy.mlEnglish • 2 years ago
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This is certainly a growing trend which was first started amongst end-users themselves, and slowly we've seen a few news media outlets also following suite. So far, only a very few government agencies have actually followed. Coming to mind are also The Netherlands. What is attractive for many organisations and agencies on Mastodon, is that...
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  • @HughJanus@lemmy.ml
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    30•2 years ago

    Honestly all governments should be doing this. They don’t necessarily need to dump Twitter though.

    In this way no one can censor them and they can control all communication.

    And also they don’t have to be responsible for content moderation.

    • @nichtsowichtig@feddit.de
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      10•2 years ago

      I definetly think they should dump twitter. especially democratic institutions

      • @HughJanus@lemmy.ml
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        2•2 years ago

        It’s a complicated hypothetical.

        Ultimately they have a responsibility to meet people where they are.

  • @miss_brainfart@lemmy.ml
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    16•2 years ago

    Love to see it

  • Playingwithethenew
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    5•2 years ago

    Cool.

  • elouboub
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    Have they postdated their toots? Their first toot is from 27 july 2021?? @ltrlp have you been on mastodon that long?

    • VanillaGorilla
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      Germany seems to have been an earlier adopter of Mastodon (the instance is hosted by the government). If I understood it correctly they just decided to stop using Twitter, it’s not like they started the instance today.

    • @Moonrise2473@feddit.it
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      It says tooted by the Mastodon-Twitter crossposter, which has been killed by space Karen 8 months ago, so I am guessing they were using mastodon from that time

      • elouboub
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        3•2 years ago

        Space Karen? Is that a user?

        • @Gnorv@feddit.de
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          11•2 years ago

          It is a name for Elon Musk.

  • Sneaky Bastard
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    2•2 years ago

    Pfalz translates to Palatinate? TIL

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