'Ouest-France' becomes first French newspaper to stop posting on X (www.rfi.fr)
from Joker@sh.itjust.works to technology@lemmy.world on 20 Nov 11:36
https://sh.itjust.works/post/28363968

French regional daily Ouest-France, the top-selling paper in the country, is the latest in a string of European publications to suspend posts on X, formerly Twitter. The social media platform is accused of enabling the spread of disinformation under its owner Elon Musk, an ally of US president-elect Donald Trump.

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astropenguin5@lemmy.world on 20 Nov 12:22 next collapse

Took em long enough

FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io on 20 Nov 12:53 next collapse

It's insane that so many places chose and are still choosing to stay and keep court at this place.

glimse@lemmy.world on 20 Nov 13:46 collapse

I can’t believe these giant companies put profit over morals. It just doesn’t make sense!

FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io on 20 Nov 17:41 collapse

We'll see how profitable it really was in the long run, but short term profits seem to blind most corporations which is practically and fiscally foolish.

glimse@lemmy.world on 20 Nov 18:19 collapse

They obviously still get the clicks to justify the cost of advertising or they wouldn’t do it. If one of them fails in a decade, no one is going to look back and say it was because they didn’t leave Twitter when Elmo bought it…

OpenStars@piefed.social on 20 Nov 12:53 next collapse

Interesting, I think they legitimately don't know what they'll do instead:

"Strictly speaking, there are no alternatives to what X offers today," Vincent Berthier, head of the technology department at RSF (Reporters Without Borders) told AFP.

"But we may need to invent them."

I imagine they'll end up on Bluesky, possibly also on Mastodon?

fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works on 20 Nov 18:18 next collapse

Honestly, for big orgs like that I feel like a federating their website just makes sense to me.

That way they can host the content (resilience to censor ship) and can still natively share it.

OpenStars@piefed.social on 20 Nov 20:14 collapse

And honestly, it may really help Mastodon out if people join it specifically to get at the content here.

mostlikelyaperson@lemmy.world on 21 Nov 09:10 collapse

Bluesky most likely, I don’t see mastodon happening unless there is a major change in how the network addresses moderation and defederation.

OpenStars@piefed.social on 21 Nov 09:46 collapse

What if they were to admin their own instance? It'd be a lot of work though.

PrivacyDingus@lemmy.world on 20 Nov 13:16 next collapse

X the everything (except the guardian, ouest-france etc.) app

MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml on 20 Nov 13:27 next collapse

Wait, all others still do?

M33@lemmy.sdf.org on 20 Nov 14:15 next collapse

Here, a baguette : ##########

0rg45mlc5uck3r84@lemmy.world on 20 Nov 15:51 collapse

That’s a centipede.

M33@lemmy.sdf.org on 20 Nov 16:38 collapse

How dare you, it identifies as a baguette

jagged_circle@feddit.nl on 20 Nov 14:55 next collapse

Doubt it

Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works on 20 Nov 15:10 next collapse

Pathetic that this is the first. Get your shit together French news outlets.

Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works on 20 Nov 15:51 next collapse

French are using Twitter a lot. Even people that are considered pretty far to the left. I’ve tried to discuss this with a few french connections I have and it’s always “but that’s where the people are”…

Letme@lemmy.world on 20 Nov 15:59 next collapse

Slaves to fashion

Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works on 20 Nov 22:38 collapse

I never understood Twitter. I tried it for like a almost a month and eventually forgot my password and just didn’t care anymore.

But when I did use it, you make a tweet or comment and then either no one responds to it, or like a hundred people respond with mostly vitriol or just total confusion, not even relating to your comment.

It ended up just being like a really shitty news feed, with a mix of random people from Ghana that started following me and visa versa for whatever reasons.

Dreamless4561@sh.itjust.works on 20 Nov 23:10 next collapse

Let’s get on the fediverse

tino@lemmy.world on 21 Nov 09:46 collapse

and the day after, one of their local offices got tagged with X. Extremists groups in France have clearly chosen their platform. ouest-france.fr/…/la-vitrine-de-la-redaction-oues…