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[–] Dankry@lemmy.world 356 points 2 years ago (5 children)

There will only be four remaining official ABC accounts: for news, sport, Chinese and the master ABC Australia account.

Somebody let me know when they actually leave twitter. This is a bullshit half measure.

[–] chrisbit@leminal.space 129 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I agree. I'd like to see them host their own Mastodon and leave a forwarding address on 'X'.

[–] hayalci@fstab.sh 103 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] CurlyMoustache@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Good! They're the leading star for many public european broadcasters. I hope many will follow. I work in public sector, and I have lobbied to get IT to start up mastodon servers on our own

[–] Roundcat@kbin.social 56 points 2 years ago (1 children)

So basically they're not leaving, they are silencing their political coverage. They're not going anywhere, they're caving to pressure.

[–] Dankry@lemmy.world 18 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Yeah pretty much, they might as well say "we've decided to sack Jerry from the Social Media team" because this isn't actually exiting twitter it's more like reducing someone's workload lol.

[–] IHeartBadCode@kbin.social 17 points 2 years ago

Yeah this is only a bit as the mainstay of ABC is their news account. But it is a step in the right direction.

[–] milkjug@lemmy.wildfyre.dev 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

So, a cop-out and a half then.

[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Bruce Willis and Burt Reynolds?

This just comes off as "trying" to look good, to me