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    E.U. Prepares Major Penalties Against X

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    139 points dotcoma | 12 comments | 06 Apr 25 17:47 UTC | HN request time: 0.58s | source | bottom
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    jrepinc ◴[06 Apr 25 18:05 UTC] No.43603480[source]▶
    Good, it is a start. And much better would be for those EU politicians, journalists and other people to move to Mastodon, Pixelfed, and similar independent platforms. That would make a much better example.
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    pimeys ◴[06 Apr 25 18:23 UTC] No.43603622[source]▶
    I can't understand why government offices for many countries are still on Twitter. At least Germany has their own mastodon service, but my home country Finland still uses Twitter.
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    1. SoftTalker ◴[06 Apr 25 18:27 UTC] No.43603664[source]▶
    Because most ordinary people are on Twitter and not Mastodon
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    2. JoshTriplett ◴[06 Apr 25 18:30 UTC] No.43603705[source]▶
    That's circular, though: the more services become available elsewhere, the easier it is for people to switch.
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    3. jahewson ◴[06 Apr 25 18:33 UTC] No.43603747[source]▶
    People don’t move to places without ordinary people for “services”. That’s not how social networks work.
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    4. lm28469 ◴[06 Apr 25 18:35 UTC] No.43603756[source]▶
    Most ordinary people are on neither
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    5. jeltz ◴[06 Apr 25 18:37 UTC] No.43603787[source]▶
    Ordinary people are on neither. The group which is on Twitter are politicians and they can decide to move to Mastodon if they want.
    6. jeltz ◴[06 Apr 25 18:38 UTC] No.43603800{3}[source]▶
    In my experience it is the other way round. The reason people are on Twitter is because politicians are there. If they move the journalists and politically interested will quickly follow.
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    7. andrepd ◴[06 Apr 25 18:40 UTC] No.43603811[source]▶
    That's a pretty bad argument. For one the majority of people are on neither. For two, it's almost always about reading, and twitter doesn't let you read posts without an account.
    8. timeon ◴[06 Apr 25 18:51 UTC] No.43603920[source]▶
    That maybe true for Meta services but Twitter was never really a thing in EU.
    9. dtquad ◴[06 Apr 25 19:13 UTC] No.43604096[source]▶
    Twitter was never really big in most European countries. I only have an account to follow AI hype and drama.
    10. SoftTalker ◴[06 Apr 25 19:16 UTC] No.43604119[source]▶
    I guess that depends on location but I’ll refine my statement to say ordinary people are overwhelmingly more likely to be on Twitter than Mastodon.
    11. harvey9 ◴[06 Apr 25 20:02 UTC] No.43604494{4}[source]▶
    Ordinary people follow politicians on social media?
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    12. viraptor ◴[06 Apr 25 21:02 UTC] No.43604941{5}[source]▶
    Truth social pretty much proves that's the case.