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Summary

The Guardian has announced it will stop posting on Elon Musk’s platform, X, citing "often disturbing content" such as far-right conspiracy theories and racism.

The news outlet, with 27 million followers across over 80 accounts, stated that the US presidential election coverage on X reinforced its view that the platform had become "toxic."

While The Guardian's official accounts will withdraw, reporters may still use X for newsgathering.

This move follows similar actions by NPR, PBS, and other organizations concerned about the platform’s content standards under Musk’s ownership.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

Very good. Hopefully others will follow.

[–] [email protected] 105 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Can we get them to join Mastodon?

I think it's ideal for new services. They can spin up an instance pretty easily through their existing IT department. They have total control and total freedom because they run the platform. Then federate with other instances to have a reach of millions instantly.

The only reason every news organization isn't doing it is just bad marketing. As far as I know, there's no marketing budget for mastodon.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago (11 children)

Bluesky also a nice alternative.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Bluesky is like the Fediverse equivalent of bumper bowling. Don't get me wrong, there's definitely a place for it, and it's better than staying on Twitter, but I do hope it ends up being just a stepping stone for people to get comfortable before taking off the guard rails and moving on to actual federated services like Mastodon or Lemmy.

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Not really, it's still corporate

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 month ago (2 children)

normies does not really care about corporate or not. the good thing about bluesky are: easy signups compare to mastodon (noobs do not want to join "servers"), better language filter than mastodon (I tried to pick specific language on mastodon setting. But, I still got unused language that I want to see), customized feed (good to find engagement), less ragebait than X and it is open source.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago

If news organizations, universities, and governments begin adopting Mastodon, then others will follow

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (6 children)

It's still decentralized and has marketing far better than Mastodan. With 15 million members and its origin from Dorsey himself, it's going to win.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Great, where can I find a list of instances?

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 month ago (1 children)

there's been a lot of myopic tunnel vision behavior from otherwise well-informed intelligent people over the last many years.

even now, people are shuffling about, carrying on like literally nothing just happened

get yourself informed and prepared. if not for you, then for your people. you have about a month and a half

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 month ago (3 children)

even now, people are shuffling about, carrying on like literally nothing just happened

get yourself informed and prepared. if not for you, then for your people. you have about a month and a half

I live paycheck to paycheck and have a family to support. What preparation do you think I'm going to do beyond grabbing my ankles and praying?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

that's the question everyone needs to be sitting down and thinking about. there's no one answer for everyone, but "do nothing" isn't one i would settle for

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Hopefully many other news outlets around the world follow suit. I once emailed Yle, Finland's state media outlet about how staying on Twitter doesn't work and why Mastodon (and the Fediverse in general) would be the better option. Later they shut some of their Twitter accounts down.... and continuing on other platforms such as TikTok.

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[–] [email protected] 242 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 99 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah it really shouldn't take actual fascism to get people off predatory social media but here we are

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