this should have happened YEARS ago.
I’m confused why governments and public funded organizations are allowed to use social media platforms. They cannot control so much of the system.
But we do live in a world now where the president of the United States of America releases policy changes via thoughts and memes on his own social media platform…
why governments and public funded organizations are allowed to use social media platforms
Because more outreach “for free”. It would be weird if they were forbidden from it.
It’s not free… someone is paid a lot of money to post stuff.
You know what I mean. Or at least you should.
It’s free in terms of government operating costs for the technology, in a way that not even their official emails is.
They would have to pay an outreach person anyway. Social media is the lowest barrier outreach channel. It’s easy to spend less and reach more when compared to sending me correspondence via mail like some officials in my area do.
Our local police posts really important updates on Twitter. I never see them because I don’t use Twitter.
Guess I’ll get murdered one day by someone considered armed and dangerous in the area, because I unknowingly approached them without calling the police. 😞
I’m confused why governments and public funded organizations are allowed to use social media platforms.
They’re trying to meet citizens where they’re at. The idea isn’t completely without merit, but government—at all levels—should be treating these accounts as secondary while running primary accounts on their own infrastructure.
That might have been the original intention for those who weren’t just being lazy and ignorant, but now they are simply captured.
It would take like a day to be uncaptured
That’s wildly optimistic.
Spinning up a Lemmy instance, mastadon, or other federated platform couldn’t be too labor intensive. It’s the beauty of free and open source software.
Right? Especially now that BSky and Threads are bridging to the Fediverse, it should be reasonable to have gov’t run Mastodon instances.
They should just be posting shit on their websites. We still have web browsers. We don’t need to be able to reply.
I agree but the ability to have a public conversation with these organizations is excellent. It’s something I’ve really missed since I left Twitter. “Hey <company that puts you on hold for hours when you call for support> fix this crappy problem!”
Digital Tax pls
Exiting or exciting? Yes.
like 20 years late…
Like OK.
How about we make them pay taxes? I’ll pay mine when they pay theirs.
