• Anticorp@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    The government using it for bulletins, especially for emergency announcements, is such ridiculous bullshit. Like what in the actual fuck?

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      6 months ago

      There is literally no reason this can’t be done with an RSS feed which is an open standard that has been around since 1999.

      • dev_null@lemmy.ml
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        6 months ago

        And it’s easier than ever before for governments to host their own Mastodon instance on their government domain.

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        6 months ago

        The reason is because average people don’t know anything that some company didn’t benefit from teaching them. So, most people don’t know what the fuck RSS is.

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        6 months ago

        I work in local government. We post everywhere Neenah the information is important. Yeah, we have our own self-hosted feed, and we have a grand total of 7 non-employee/non-official subscribers versus thousands on Twitter and Facebook.

        We go where the people are.