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Paris mayor quits X platform, calling it a ‘gigantic global sewer’ (www.reuters.com)

submitted 1 year ago by L4s@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Paris mayor quits X platform, calling it a ‘gigantic global sewer’::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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[–] ASaltPepper@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm curious to see where politicians end up after ditching X. I want to believe that governments could set up their own lemmy/bluesky instances. But my gut is telling me Meta owned platforms will win out due to ease of use and their ability to comply with local European laws.

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 14 points 1 year ago

The German ministry for data protection and information security aka BfDI (yeah, it's a mouth full) has one https://social.bund.de/

So has the Dutch government: https://social.overheid.nl/

And the EU has an official one too https://social.network.europa.eu

Dunno if there are more. Maybe the French, Italians and Spanish do too. Maybe a list of governmental mastodon instances would be nice.