After more than 15 years on the platform formerly known as Twitter, Cambridge is leaving X - The Boston Globe
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City councilors in the liberal enclave voted unanimously to leave a platform they said had become toxic under owner Elon Musk.
  • cabbage@piefed.socialEnglish
    173·
    2 个月前

    “I don’t want residents to think we’re giving a stamp of approval to Instagram and Facebook and Snapchat and all their oligarch owners,” said City Councilor Jivan Sobrinho-Wheeler at Monday’s meeting. “There’s no ethical social media companies under capitalism,” he said. “We can try to use the ones that are the least bad and reach the most Cambridge residents.”

    Somebody tell this guy about Mastodon.

    Also worth noting that this article is about the city of Cambridge, Massachusetts, not Cambridge, England nor the University of Cambridge. They still apparently thrive in the gutter.

    • morto@piefed.socialEnglish
      50·
      2 个月前

      Judging by the quote, they’re likely going to bluesky. They will say that mastodon has a too restricted reach. It’s like a pattern. Every time I see someone coming with that “there’s no ethical [thing] under capitalism”, instead of promoting the anticapitalist things or the most ethical choices, they use the phrase to justify using another capitalist thing.

      • baatliwala@lemmy.worldEnglish
        28·
        2 个月前

        Idk why they can’t use both, any big organisation has a social media team managing multiple handles

        • morto@piefed.socialEnglish
          7·
          2 个月前

          Institutions don’t want to or simply don’t care. Anything else said is just an excuse to give a good-looking response

      • Specter@piefed.socialEnglish
        11·
        2 个月前

        Right.

        “We hate capitalist oligarchs which is why we are moving to another oligarch-owned platform.”

        It’s all so tiresome.

      • StormyEnglish
        36·
        2 个月前

        You found the number, why don’t you call?

        • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
          24·
          2 个月前

          If I admitted to calling, I would be confirming that the phone number the guy’s office received a call from was linked to this Lemmy account.

          As it is, who knows who might have called? The call (or ideally, the calls, plural) could’ve come from any number of people who read that message.

          • StormyEnglish
            15·
            2 个月前

            I got you.

            I called earlier.

            It was me.

            (Wink)

            • FauxLiving@lemmy.worldEnglish
              5·
              2 个月前

              I called too, he’s a public official and we are the public… nobody should be afraid of calling to provide feedback.

              It would be trivial for them to add another site, like Mastodon, to the software the keeps their socials in sync. They just need to hear about it and this guy doesn’t strike me as the ‘hanging out in the Fediverse’ type.

              If you want his office to know, you gotta tell them yourself. Don’t assume someone else will do it. You, yes you the person reading this from the other side of the 4th wall, remember the saying from Fortnite “Be the change you want to see in the world.”

              • StormyEnglish
                21·
                2 个月前

                remember the saying from Fortnite “Be the change you want to see in the world.”

                That was Oprah

    • arcine@jlai.luEnglish
      1·
      2 个月前

      Some people have trouble conceiving of social media that is not ran by a company.

  • speedythefirst@lemmy.zipEnglish
    13·
    2 个月前

    Good. I’m curious to see where they land. Most likely Bluesky, but I’ve heard of some local governments moving to Fediverse instances, whether they’re Mastodon or local.

  • maplesaga@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    2 个月前

    Its interesting to see the same people calling for governmental social media censorship also calling for Trump to stop lying to them. Do they realize he is part of the government, or that he will be the one to control it?

  • teyrnon@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    31·
    2 个月前

    Cambridge is actually pretty cool in some ways. They put out a lot of research on small farming, ways for people to get into the business. Maple syrup, mushrooms, crops.

    They also do the israel thing so they aren’t perfect.

  • Jhex@lemmy.worldEnglish
    21·
    2 个月前

    Absolutely ridiculous this is not an article from a few years back…