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Twitter at least used to be the best place to find official statements from local government, local cops, etc. They would put stuff out on their official accoun
by roywiggins 3y ago
Twitter at least used to be the best place to find official statements from local government, local cops, etc. They would put stuff out on their official accounts, other people would post video of news conferences, and so on. I am not sure there is a replacement.
- prmoustache 3y agoyes, they can all have their private blog/microblog or use something else on the fediverse. You might have a tiny bit of friction in discoverability but it isn't hard to spread the word when it is about local agencies/administrations.
- ehPReth 3y agoI would love this. Absolutely love this. Unfortunately, this is not happening now. The vast majority of 'official'/'governmental' institutions/people seem post on Twitter and, sadly, only on Twitter. Maybe Facebook if you're lucky. I've had to resort to using the premium tier of IFTTT to get things like road closure notices for my area.. it's maddening. I'd love if they would set up some ActivityPub something under their own domain that I could subscribe to :/
- prmoustache 3y agoDon't know about 'murica but in europe more and more gov and local institutions have a fediverse presence. some examples are the european commission and frenchgov mastodon instances: https://social.network.europa.eu https://social.network.europa.eu https://social.numerique.gouv.fr https://social.numerique.gouv.fr I am pretty sure other countries are doing the same or are considering it. Also many NGOs have a fediverse presence.
- fnordpiglet 3y agoCan is arbitrarily complex. Reality is they don’t. I actually wish the UN had acquired twitter as a global public good than baby man boy.