Donald Trump's move against Twitter factchecking could backfire
Trump signs executive order targeting Twitter after fact-checking row
This should be interesting... Mastodon servers that aren’t hosted from/in the US should prepare to handle more traffic, I think...
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"I think I'd be hurting it very badly if we didn't use it anymore," Trump said from the White House. "We have other sites we can use, I guess, or we'd have to develop other sites."
@Gargron How would you feel about a government, maybe even the US, deploying a system utilizing Mastodon to make a public social network, or even just a .gov instance. I think Trump turning to the Fediverse might be a good thing overall.
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I don't want to see the government develop any sort of other Twitter-like entity, but there's a potential opportunity for another network.
If Trump—like him or hate him—decides to use something else, it gets an instant userbase and advertisement via the media. He can use whatever he wants, so perhaps lashing out on Twitter—on Twitter is the wrong tactic.