“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 nor the University of Cambridge. They still apparently thrive in the gutter.

No it's still known as Twitter, despite changing it's name to X.

It's been 2 years and we still recognize [the name] Twitter better than X

BTW, there is a very strong Boston/Cambridge/Somerville community on mastodon, there is a entire instance for it: https://better.boston/explore

Mayor Wu is on there @wutrain@better.boston but not posting much these days.

There are also many people on other instances, like transport or OSS instance, as many prominent OSS contributor lives in that area.

Good. I'm curious to see where they land. Most likely Bluesky, but I've heard of some local governments moving to Fediverse instances, whether they're Mastodon or local.

Cambridge is actually pretty cool in some ways. They put out a lot of research on small farming, ways for people to get into the business. Maple syrup, mushrooms, crops.

They also do the israel thing so they aren't perfect.