We’re leaving X.

@greenpartyni I am pleased to hear that. It's the right thing to do.

While you're at it, any chance you could have a word with your friends in the Green Party of England and Wales? They seem to still be on Twitter, and, as you have realised, that's becoming rather hard to defend.

@raymaccarthy
It's still better to do it step by step than not doing at all…

@greenpartyni

@wariat @greenpartyni
Yes.

And in N.I itself the UK institutionalised bigotry in the 1998 GFA. Only the parties declaring as "Unionist" and "Nationalist" can be in power (First Minister & Deputy Minister MUST come from those two.

That is a big issue for the Greens and Alliance party. Getting seats is a first step for those parties. A region where in many places you need to put up Election posters late at night etc.

Outsiders suffer bigotry from Nationalists, Republicans & worst Unionists.

@nic We’ve been here for almost a full year now and you’re right, the engagement is disproportionate to the size of our audience here. We’re committed here for the long term (if I have anything to do with it!) as it really is the only truly independent non-corporate US option. Plus it’s filled with cool independently minded people. Including me on a personal account.

@Jkp we’ve been here for a year already. We’re all volunteers with many public issues to speak to. We really only cross-posted to Twitter because NI journalists were still hanging on there. It wasn’t a priority as we didn’t pay it much attention.

@greenpartyni that's great! I sure hope our french parties take the hint as well.

What's the next step? Get away from Zuckerberg medias?

@greenpartyni Changing socials is like using web forms for people to email you. You choose the format and what you need and will accept from them.
Using Mastodon is just publishing your new email address.

@greenpartyni
For parties/institutions/govt depts/corps/countries etc. that wish to develop their own Fedi servers, I would suggest using X/BlueSky/Facebook/Insta/Threads etc. simply to replicate the *original* posts/threads on these servers. So all followers on those platforms know where to go to interact seriously.

Why are you remaining on Instagram, Reddit, Facebook, YouTube, TikTok? Those, too, are either in danger of falling to the same vices as Twitter, or are already on the way there. Wouldn't it be better to convince people to join free social networks instead?

@JimmyB @noodlemaz When you've worked hard to build a large following, to communicate a positive message, it's hard to throw that away. Optimists hope things will improve, that fascists will disappear into insignificance, as they have done before.

@noodlemaz @woo yeah - I understand and agree. Man - I’ve been plenty slow enough in my time to make changes which were needed. The original point I made was about the framing. Like - this really is a step too far…. Anyway…

@greenpartyni erm you know meta’s platforms explicitly allow abusers and racists and all sorts of disinformation right

@zaire absolutely, but as a small political party we have to be where our voters are and potential voters. Sure, we’d like everyone to move to independent platforms like the Fediverse and dump US corporate media. But until that happens we’re stuck with an impossible choice - stay and inform & provoke for change, or leave and loose that important piece of influence. Damned if you do, damned if you don’t. ‍️

@greenpartyni @zaire
But look at the response so far on that GPNI Twitter post - single-digit engagement metrics, and a couple of limp replies.

It's doing decent numbers here, though, and presumably on the other platforms too.

@ikuturso @JimmyB @harri @noodlemaz
Zuck was sitting with the rest of the techbro billionaires at the most recent POTUS inauguration.

@dec23k @zaire It’s very clear to us that Musk throttles progressive voices like the Greens on XTwitter. The only way to try to counter that may be to pay for blue tick mark. And we would never do that!

@dec23k @noodlemaz @harri @ikuturso yeah - exactly. I’m not discriminating between depths of fascism

I was involved in the campaign to repeal the 8th amendment for a few years.
When I wasn't collecting petition signatures at stalls or holding up one end of a banner or marching through Dublin or Belfast in the rain, a lot of campaigning was organised and done online, including on Twitter.
(planning was done in-person or on Signal, for opsec).

Some throttling of progressive voices was going on before 2022, but it got worse after the divorced dad walked into Twitter HQ with a kitchen sink.

@dec23k @JimmyB @harri @noodlemaz Right, he's certainly trying to work with the Trump regime and to get in his good graces. For that and a million other reasons I don't blame you if you want nothing to do with his stuff either.

Latest news was that some former Trump advisor became president of Meta. I still think it is fairly obvious that Elon is much worse though.

@ikuturso @JimmyB @harri @noodlemaz
Yes, Space Karen is the worst. Always has been, at least as far back as the early days of paypal.

I was part of the late-2022 migration to Mastodon, from Twitter. It was an almost-perfect replacement, for me. But of course I was aware that it wasn't as ideal for other people. For a lot of them, bluesky was a better fit. But bluesky started out as a Twitter project (under Jack Dorsey), and it is very very centralised.