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

submitted 1 year ago by cyu@sh.itjust.works to c/technology@lemmy.ml

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[–] HughJanus@lemmy.ml 37 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I definetly think they should dump twitter. especially democratic institutions

[–] HughJanus@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

It's a complicated hypothetical.

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

[–] miss_brainfart@lemmy.ml 19 points 1 year ago

Love to see it

[–] AbsolutelyNotCats@lemdro.id 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm thrilled to see companies shifting to Mastodon from Twitter. Mastodon's decentralized nature and open-source foundation provide a healthier and more meaningful online experience compared to Twitter's chaotic, ad-driven environment, specially after elon turd bought it

[–] Playingwithethenew@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

Cool.

[–] elouboub@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] VanillaGorilla@kbin.social 18 points 1 year ago

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 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Space Karen? Is that a user?

[–] Gnorv@feddit.de 13 points 1 year ago

It is a name for Elon Musk.

[–] sneaky_b45tard@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

Pfalz translates to Palatinate? TIL