One obvious benefit would be that those who are interested in being anticapitalist, truly communal, could proceed off into their echochamber and leave the adults in peace. Thus we do support this idea from Clive Lewis MP:

Excellent stuff. I’ve been thinking the exact same thing.

However, I’d like @lisanandy at @DCMS to think about what a democratic, open source, transparent, public, bottom-up, cooperative based, social media platform looks like and see it kick-started by said dept asap

The way to do this is to download a copy of Mastodon (there are other alternatives) and start running an instance on the DCMS server. If you don’t know how to do this then we’d suggest corralling any random 7 year old and get them to show you - our memories of VCRs suggest that this is the correct way to deal with any technical difficulties among those rich in years and experience.

If only all political suggestions were this easy - and cheap - to deal with.

Glad we could help here.

Tim Worstall