If only it were to mastodon. Though baby steps, i guess
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.
I agree. European institutions should have social presence, but most of the time that leads to random crazy people commenting under official posts.
They already have websites. And social media is much more accessible than an RSS feed
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.
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.
Social media requires accounts… by default rss is literally more accessible.
I meant to average users. You're right that RSS is easier, but most of their target users have accounts anyway
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.
Absolutely. as i said; baby steps :)
We'll be more on equal grounds of opportunity if the market share is split evenly
A pity they go again for the same type of platform. It's just a matter of time until the profit maximization monster strikes there too :/
Maybe now would be the right time to lobby this organization. The impact of Twitter may have brought us Trump and all the destruction which will follow. We can't affort this once more.
Networking effect for you
Do Facebook next
Aww i thought you meant they were leaving bluesky in droves :(
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