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I don't understand why Governments and organizations aren't taking advantage of the Fediverse. Spin up an instance, set it have no comments/sign ups (no comments and no signs up means very little moderation). The Fediverse allows governments and organizations to fully control their instance.
This is what I've been arguing for, with some added detail:
Ideally I'd see each instance run at a state / province level. I imagine this being a manageable level of account granularity for each city and major government aligned institution in need of a short-form-text publishing vector (offices, municipal departments, etc). It would also help prevent account name collisions.
IT infra can be built to push mastodon updates downstream to other social media platforms.
RSS would probably be fine for that. Our town government still posts to Facebook, but least they mirror everything on their own site. It doesn't seem to have RSS, but it's better than nothing, and thankfully they quit twitter.
Something else I would love is if there was a platform for posting Instagram-type posts to somewhere open in addition to Instagram. I want to follow local artists, businesses, etc. without using Instagram, but it needs to be frictionless for non-technical people and still reach Instagram for them to consider it.
RSS is already baked into mastodon for anyone wanting to use it.
There's still a need for some kind of service to push updates to other platforms. FB, Twitter, bsky, insta, these all have APIs to allow posts in, but have few resources to let posts flow out. So fuck 'em. They get to be at the tail end of the content centipede.
From a department owner's perspective, the less time they think about wireup for social media stuff, the better. Post once and let it all roll out to secondary platforms.
And, IIRC, Pixelfed is the fediverse version of insta. I poked around it, but I was never really an instagram-type person.
Its the lack of control. Governments want to have a single point (company) that they can tell "this is illegal, delete it" and then be sure that its gone. Basically all governments love to have a little bit of authoritarianism.
There was a petition presented to the house... and the response sidestepped the whole petition.
https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-4769