> But why on earth would our institutions be on something they don’t control? I imagine is because they think their message will reach more people on Twitter/F

> But why on earth would our institutions be on something they don’t control? I imagine is because they think their message will reach more people on Twitter/Facebook/Tiktok than on Mastodon. The fix for this would be for the EU to mandate that Twitter and Facebook federate using ActivityPub, in such a way that following a Mastodon (etc) account gives that account as much reach as an account directly on Twitter/Facebook would have. As for TikTok, since it's a massive national security risk it should just be blocked. > I do think it’s sort of silly that Meta can dictate and censor what our elected officials can say on a social media This is only possible because your elected officials don't have the balls to tell Meta to do the right thing.