I am going to play devils advocate right now and say the Canadian Government should not leave Xitter. Not because it isn’t a cesspool, I deleted my profile ages ago. But I feel they should keep and continue to post on Xitter since if they stop they will allow others to control the narrative. And despite our views that we should support alternatives, Xitter is still insanely popular.
If the Canadian Government should do anything they should either make their own Social Platform (like their own Mastodon server), or move over to BluSky and use their old Xitter accounts as a Mirror. Where content and important messages are still posted, but discussion and replies are on the other platforms.
Eventually when Xitter implodes like other social media before it, then the Government already has established social media ready to go.
Even assuming that staying on X to influence the narrative (a) works and (b) is worth the downsides, one needs to adopt the policy of making e.g. the Mastodon account the default, and post on X only a subset of what is posted on Mastodon. And of course be verbal about this.
I am going to play devils advocate right now and say the Canadian Government should not leave Xitter. Not because it isn’t a cesspool, I deleted my profile ages ago. But I feel they should keep and continue to post on Xitter since if they stop they will allow others to control the narrative. And despite our views that we should support alternatives, Xitter is still insanely popular.
If the Canadian Government should do anything they should either make their own Social Platform (like their own Mastodon server), or move over to BluSky and use their old Xitter accounts as a Mirror. Where content and important messages are still posted, but discussion and replies are on the other platforms.
Eventually when Xitter implodes like other social media before it, then the Government already has established social media ready to go.
Staying on it keeps it relevant, enhances network effect. Leave and network effect is removed.
Move to an open system, blusky afaik doesn’t qualify, it’s still centrally controlled, go to mastodon
Even assuming that staying on X to influence the narrative (a) works and (b) is worth the downsides, one needs to adopt the policy of making e.g. the Mastodon account the default, and post on X only a subset of what is posted on Mastodon. And of course be verbal about this.