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Twitter was the only platform I could tell our public health director they were doing way more damage with their insane covid mandates than good. I even got rep
by spookthesunset 3y ago
Twitter was the only platform I could tell our public health director they were doing way more damage with their insane covid mandates than good. I even got replies from the dude. There isn't any other platform out there where you can do this.
So while Twitter is indeed a toxic hellhole, it is oftentimes the only way you can directly attempt to communicate with "the right people" in an organization.
- sanderjd 3y agoYou could do that. It was that platform. As it increasingly loses its universality in favor of incentivizing subscriptions, it will increasingly lose that position.
- red-iron-pine 3y agosounds like a need for something like a utility or public corporation.
- oneeyedpigeon 3y agoTwitter should just be an open protocol like email. I.e. Mastodon.
- sanderjd 3y agoLiterally just RSS.
- 1270018080 3y agoTwitter was a useful tool years ago... indeed.
- rat87 3y agoThat sounds like you were making Twitter a toxic hellhole by harassing a public servant trying to protect people's health. Maybe that's not what actually happened (possibly context makes it seem less bad) but that's what it sounds like