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Lee Duna@lemmy.nz to World News@beehaw.orgEnglish · 2 years ago

Paris mayor quits X platform, calling it a 'gigantic global sewer'

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Paris mayor quits X platform, calling it a 'gigantic global sewer'

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Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo on Monday announced she was quitting the X platform formerly known as Twitter, calling it a "gigantic global sewer" that was "destroying our democracies" by spreading abuse and misinformation.
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    Let’s hope more follow and even better go to Mastodon instead. Each government should own and operate instances for their official communication instead of relying on a private company

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      Governments using mastodon just make perfect sense to me.

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        It really does. They should run their own instance and only govt employees can have accounts on them but the rest of us could i teract.

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          We did: https://social.overheid.nl/about (Dutch)

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            That’s so cool!

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            Unfortunately as of the elections last month now our government will itself be an extreme-right cesspool. They will actually belong on Twitter :'(

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      Totally with you. I need for this to happen faster. I hate that every bit of “news” in the AI LLM space is currently posted on X/twitter. I want to keep up and I’m forced to have a dummy account just to read peoples posts and get the link to the GitHub. I’m just one of those people that doesn’t understand why most people haven’t switched or at the very least post on multiple platforms to reach a wider audience.

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    That’s an insult to gigantic global sewers.

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      Agreed. Sewers serve an important sanitary purpose. I propose to characterize Twixxer as an out of control tire fire.

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        Why not a controlled tire fire:

        https://youtu.be/XvkD4QgMtWg?si=2R0l3B6_xn7Oc_DD

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      …like the Seine

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    The Paris Mayor? Is this really a major story?

    Lots of people have left or silent quit… At this time, its hardly a story anymore honestly

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      Is this really a major story?

      No, it’s a Mayor story

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      Shocking few politicians have stopped using it however.

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      It’s a bit light for a news story. It could have been a lengthier analysis on Twitter’s decline and spread of hate speech on the platform.

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    Under any other circumstance, an excellent set up to a Paris joke; but they’re right.

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