Post #2694195
2026-03-31 14:40 UTC
> “I don’t want residents to think we’re giving a stamp of approval to Instagram and Facebook and Snapchat and all their oligarch owners,” said City Councilor Jivan Sobrinho-Wheeler at Monday’s meeting. “There’s no ethical social media companies under capitalism,” he said. “We can try to use the ones that are the least bad and reach the most Cambridge residents.”
Somebody tell this guy about Mastodon.
Also worth noting that this article is about the city of Cambridge, Massachusetts, not [Cambridge, England](https://nitter.net/camcitco) nor the [University of Cambridge](https://nitter.net/cambridge_uni). They still apparently thrive in the gutter.
Replies (4)
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@morto@piefed.social 2026-03-31 17:36
Judging by the quote, they're likely going to bluesky. They will say that mastodon has a too restricted reach. It's like a pattern. Every time I see someone coming with that "there's no ethical [thing] under capitalism", instead of promoting the anticapitalist things or the most ethical choices, they use the phrase to justify using another capitalist thing.
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@grue@lemmy.world 2026-03-31 19:06
> Somebody tell this guy about Mastodon. The phone number for his executive assistant is 617-349-4280. https://www.cambridgema.gov/Departments/citycouncil/members/jivansobrinhowheeler
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@jefferyjefferson@lemmy.org 2026-04-01 10:11
These people are genuinely too stupid to choose Mastodon.
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@arcine@jlai.lu 2026-04-05 18:03
Some people have trouble conceiving of social media that is *not* ran by a company.