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After more than 15 years on the platform formerly known as Twitter, Cambridge is leaving X (www.bostonglobe.com)
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[–] cabbage@piefed.social 84 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (2 children)

“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.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 7 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Somebody tell this guy about Mastodon.

The phone number for his executive assistant is 617-349-4280.

https://www.cambridgema.gov/Departments/citycouncil/members/jivansobrinhowheeler

[–] Stormy@thelemmy.club 0 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] grue@lemmy.world 7 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Stormy@thelemmy.club 3 points 1 hour ago

I got you.

I called earlier.

It was me.

(Wink)

[–] morto@piefed.social 15 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

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.world 6 points 3 hours ago

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