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> There's zero excuse, none. How about the general lack of awareness of "open platforms", or of any given one of your objections to X? Most people are not in
by zahlman 2mo ago
> There's zero excuse, none.
How about the general lack of awareness of "open platforms", or of any given one of your objections to X?
Most people are not in the HN bubble.
- edoceo 2mo agoIf it's not the case currently, it should be, that public institutions MUST make their public statements widely available. The old POSSE way seems correct. Blocked, or EULA'd or Paywalled on third-party platforms doesn't do that.
- Petersipoi 2mo ago[flagged]
- rideontime 2mo agoAn open platform could be as simple as hosting their own website. You don’t need to be in a “bubble” to know about websites.
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- DOGMATICA 2mo ago“As simple as hosting their own website” is contradictory for a majority of the people using the internet.
- olyjohn 2mo agoWe are talking about organizations here who are communicating with the public.
- ncallaway 2mo agoThe context of the thread is public institutions. I promise you, most public institutions are capable of hosting a web site or running a bluesky account
- alightsoul 2mo agoThey choose not to because no one uses them. To get views for political purposes you have to use social media like blue sky and the fediverse
- MarkusQ 2mo agoWhy should public institutions be trying to get views for political purposes? Isn't that directly contrary to the intended role of public institutions in a democracy?
- alightsoul 2mo agoBecause they want to win the next election? Corruption basically.
- MarkusQ 2mo agoBingo. It's not the "institutions" doing it, it's whichever elected officials we're trusting to run it at the time abusing their positions.
- nomel 2mo agoGo ask your mom why she never posts on her own website, but does on closed platform social media. Her answer will be the same as all the people outside of the tech bubble you're in.
- voidUpdate 2mo agoMy mum used to blog on her own website daily, and she's not tech savvy at all
- nomel 2mo agoWho bought the domain for her, and went through the hoops (usually modifying DNS records) to verify it with the blog provider?
- ura_yukimitsu 2mo agoI obviously don't know about that person's mom, but a lot of hosting platforms and blog providers will do that for you if you don't want to do it yourself.
- voidUpdate 2mo agoWordpress, I believe
- rideontime 2mo agoThis is not a conversation about mothers. The root of this thread was referring to "accessibility of public-facing government communications."
- nomel 2mo ago> My tolerance for people posting to X without also posting to an open platform is over. > Public institutions especially. > There's zero excuse, none. Maybe it wasn't their intent, but they clearly wrote it as a more general statement, with an additional and specific intolerance to public institutions, which is also how others interpreted it.