cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/78059788
We shouldn’t be forced to use toxic platforms that track and profile us in order to get public information.
Platforms such as Facebook, Instagram and YouTube track and profile their users so that they can target advertising towards them.
Their business models fuel online harms by pushing more and more extreme content to users. Despite this, these platforms are one of the primary ways that government departments share public information.
Tell your MP to support the EDM calling on the UK Government to ensure that all public sector social media content is published on open, decentralised and federated platforms!
#socialMedia #UK #politics #UKpolitics #fediverse #initiative
Having states, cites, countries, or even departments of government run their own mastadon servers would be great. I refuse to give my information to big tech just so I can keep up with public information. At the very least they should publish such things on their own websites, but these days those are rarely updated. Even critical things like wildfire information are posted on twitter and facebook.
