We appreciate that certain politicians have recently admitted their naivete in entrusting the voices of their governments to corporate / for-profit social media.

[mastodon@mastodon.social]

We appreciate that certain politicians have recently admitted their naivete in entrusting the voices of their governments to corporate / for-profit social media.

To these politicians, we say: https://joinmastodon.org/hosting

[lahosken@hachyderm.io]

@Mastodon I think I missed some discourse. any kind scholar care to point me at the inspiration for this toot?

[hipsterelectron@circumstances.run]

@lahosken @Mastodon macron identified US social networks as a risk to democracy a couple days ago https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2025/10/03/macron-and-merz-sound-alarm-over-european-democracy_6746067_4.html it was in the context of building up independent capacity for military action and he specifically identified user anonymity as problematic, neither of which i suspect the mastodon project agrees with

[oblomov@sociale.network]

@Mastodon how quickly would their instance be muted on mastodon.social after they come out in defense of the Palestinian people against the genocide perpetrated by Netanyahu's government?

[luca@sironi.tk]

@hipsterelectron @lahosken @Mastodon

well, maybe I just want to be optimistic, but they are referring to big Us commercial giants
"where the rule is to insult others if one wants to be popular."

We are a glass box in that sense.