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I made the mistake of searching it yesterday via a proxy while trying to search for local police news (why do our govts use these mechanisms to publish first) a

by abawany 1mo ago

I made the mistake of searching it yesterday via a proxy while trying to search for local police news (why do our govts use these mechanisms to publish first) and ran into threads calling for ethnic cleansing of south asians from Texas. Not a great read.

cdrnsf 1mo ago
I'd love to see public agencies or anyone making any sort of significant public announcements use any other platform. FTP a text file to a server for all I care, but I'm not risking a search of a platform that openly encourages extremism and discourages moderation.
- brunoarueira 1mo ago
  I think Mastodon or something similar would be really good, without a central moderation.
  - kalleboo 1mo ago
    They could literally just post to a WordPress blog with the ActivityPub plugin, and then people can either just read it on the website, or follow it from a fediverse/mastodon account.
dylan604 1mo ago
Where else do you suggest they post? Publishing to the socials casts the widest net form them. If they operate their own website and post there, a number approaching zero would see the posts. Do you expect a new app per municipality to be a solution? Or one app to become a new platform just to interact with gov't agencies that the other platforms already provide? You have the question, but have you spent any time coming up with answers/suggestions?
- cdrnsf 1mo ago
  A municipal website? A text file on a file server? Not a login-gated social media platform owned by the world's richest edgelord.
- matsemann 1mo ago
  In Norway most withdrew from X. Norwegian police made a webpage, an rss feed, some push system and an API. So others have made bots that repost on various social media, but the source is no longer in a walled garden.
- abawany 1mo ago
  Multi-publish is a thing that is managed by numerous publishers. Right now, most govt sites ime no longer publish at all on their sites or rss but instead update one of facebook or twitter, depending on their preference. If they can afford to buy 70k usd suvs at taxpayer expense, they should also be able to figure out how to publish on mechanisms without walls, such as rss or their own site.
- jerlam 1mo ago
  My locale uses Nixle to send people alerts: https://www.everbridge.com/products/nixle/ https://www.everbridge.com/products/nixle/

by abawany 1mo ago

cdrnsf 1mo ago

I'd love to see public agencies or anyone making any sort of significant public announcements use any other platform. FTP a text file to a server for all I care, but I'm not risking a search of a platform that openly encourages extremism and discourages moderation.

brunoarueira 1mo ago
I think Mastodon or something similar would be really good, without a central moderation.
- kalleboo 1mo ago
  They could literally just post to a WordPress blog with the ActivityPub plugin, and then people can either just read it on the website, or follow it from a fediverse/mastodon account.

dylan604 1mo ago

Where else do you suggest they post? Publishing to the socials casts the widest net form them. If they operate their own website and post there, a number approaching zero would see the posts. Do you expect a new app per municipality to be a solution? Or one app to become a new platform just to interact with gov't agencies that the other platforms already provide? You have the question, but have you spent any time coming up with answers/suggestions?

cdrnsf 1mo ago
A municipal website? A text file on a file server? Not a login-gated social media platform owned by the world's richest edgelord.
matsemann 1mo ago
In Norway most withdrew from X. Norwegian police made a webpage, an rss feed, some push system and an API. So others have made bots that repost on various social media, but the source is no longer in a walled garden.
abawany 1mo ago
Multi-publish is a thing that is managed by numerous publishers. Right now, most govt sites ime no longer publish at all on their sites or rss but instead update one of facebook or twitter, depending on their preference. If they can afford to buy 70k usd suvs at taxpayer expense, they should also be able to figure out how to publish on mechanisms without walls, such as rss or their own site.
jerlam 1mo ago
My locale uses Nixle to send people alerts: https://www.everbridge.com/products/nixle/ https://www.everbridge.com/products/nixle/