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European institutions are leaving in droves. (bsky.app)

submitted 4 days ago by Sunshine@lemmy.ca to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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[-] fxomt@lemm.ee 122 points 4 days ago

If only it were to mastodon. Though baby steps, i guess

[-] TheObviousSolution@kbin.melroy.org 73 points 4 days ago

Or, hear me out, whatever happened to just hosting your own fucking website and RSS stream? Not everything needs to an opportunity for a random Joe to drop his two cents in.

[-] Scrollone@feddit.it 19 points 4 days ago

I agree. European institutions should have social presence, but most of the time that leads to random crazy people commenting under official posts.

[-] fxomt@lemm.ee 11 points 4 days ago

They already have websites. And social media is much more accessible than an RSS feed

[-] Glitchvid@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago

Somewhat out of scope for this specific article, but in the States' a lot of cities only make announcements over Tw*tter or Facebook.

I was planning on going to a 4th of July parade with my family, and I only learned it was cancelled (wildfires) because somebody else told me, who was following there, the city website had no mechanism for this kind of news.

Which is really what I'd prefer to see, websites maintained for announcements, and if they want to also post that news on other social media they can use software to crosspost. Also RSS feeds for those who still use readers, plenty of 'Content Management' suites provide that functionality by default.

[-] fxomt@lemm.ee 3 points 3 days ago

Yeah I still think there should be websites and RSS (sorry about what happened BTW), but the top user was implying socials are useless for them. Most people have social media, but most also don't have RSS.

[-] tyler@programming.dev 5 points 4 days ago

Social media requires accounts… by default rss is literally more accessible.

[-] fxomt@lemm.ee 12 points 4 days ago

I meant to average users. You're right that RSS is easier, but most of their target users have accounts anyway

[-] maplebar@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

The way I see it, the most important thing right now is breaking up the biggest platforms. The biggest advantage that places like Facebook, Twitter and TikTok have right now is the network effect from having a fuck ton of users. But in a more fractured social media landscape, the tools that are the most open and federated will eventually come out on top.