@WiteWulf @mihamarkic @eunews and that is another reason why we should target the people who put "follow us on X" links on their web pages and ask them to close their X accounts and remove those links. They can threaten "sanctions" against the UK and other state actors and scream blue murder about "freedom of speech" over bans, but they won't have a leg to stand on when accounts use that freedom to voluntarily close their accounts and disassociate themselves from the platform.

@eunews seriously wtf.... countries should just ban that site, period. Why look for "support"? Any country that has any decency should just unilaterally ban it. The momentum will build. Others will follow. Those who don't? Sod 'em.

@andrewstroehlein may I also alert you to this longer post I just put up through my fedi.at account.

It deals with major news outlets and political parties continuing to offer the option to people to follow them on "X":

https://fedi.at/@rozeboosje/115870633898774067

@andrewstroehlein I closed my account WAY back, the moment I heard Elon Musk express his interest in buying Twitter. I never regretted that decision.

@mister_shade02X2 @benroyce @theothersimo @Pepijn The good thing about Mastodon is that it's not "a" platform, thanks to federation. Anyone can spin up an instance so yeah, some arseholes will spin up Nazi bars and some badly moderated instances attract the worst people. But that's GOOD. You can block entire instances and curate your experience to make sure your exposure to them is kept to a minimum. That's not to say it's easy and there isn't still a lot of room for improvement.