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 post was submitted on 08 Jan 2026
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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
It still amazes me after all the shit that Twitter has been through that people still use it.
The network effect seems to be the strong nuclear force of online interaction.
There are a lot of people who claim to be progressive that continue to use that fascist shit hole and they will come up with any reason under the sun to continue to do so.
The australian PM doesnt even have a public email address, the parliament website suggests contacting him on twitter
the same government who are constantly in a public fight with musk over the content on his website for respectable public figures lol
That can’t be true…right?
Partially.
This is what I found first which does indeed feature a twitter icon. And a phone number https://www.aph.gov.au/Senators_and_Members/Parliamentarian?MPID=R36#t2-content-panel
Then I came across https://www.pm.gov.au/contact which uses a web form to send an email to him.
I've never seen Albanese respond to anyone on Twitter. Ever.
Twitter is the Nazi bar and too many people are still in it. There's no excuse anymore.
typical network effects + walled gardens. People can't leave for the same reason they can't leave any other platform they hate. If we want to get people to leave twitter, regulate interop.
Most of them can leave. It would just inconvenience them.
that's right, yes. But this is true of all the other platforms as well, and people don't leave them even when they hate them.
They should maybe have done that when it became clear the site was run by a Nazi, but better late then never.
Nazis be nazis
Prudes be prudes
Prudes be prudes
I don't see this as an issue of prudes vs. non prudes, it's a form of sexual assault.
I think they're just pointing out that politicians were okay with staying on Twitter after it became a nazi website, but the "grok porn" is the final nail in the coffin for them, it suggests that they consider sexual content to be worse than nazi content.
Obviously having an AI generate porn of real people should be a crime, and probably already is, but the law is optional for corporations and billionaires.
yeah, that's valid, I can't come up with any reason to separate the degrees of deplorableness of X - the nazi shit was repugnant enough for any outfit to leave - see NPR etc. and there's no value add to it - it's a cesspool and there's so little to be gained, it's inexcusable to use it at this point, much less rely on it.
now that they're making porn out of whatever the chuds want to prompt what the fuck over, like, learn to leave something behind
I agree, but sadly, many politicians seemingly don't agree. They're happy to stay on the nazi website, because nazi shit is close enough to their actual beliefs that they aren't turned off enough by it to leave.
valid
If be curious at your level of prudishness if someone made some porn you didn’t want out of a regular photo of yourself you posted.
What does this even mean
It's time to start tooting instead!
It’s a mystery to me why the gov/CBC/RC are still on Shitter. Making your own instance for each of your branch is fucking easy
It wouldn't be hard to maintain multiple accounts. I just don't get it.
Aww, I just saw your un - I knew a girl in hs named Sunshine! 💜
It's basically government officials and news organizations having their main communication channels be on 4chan. That's where we're at. It's ridiculous.
The time to abandon Twitter was when it was created... Morally speaking, however, that time was after the Nazi that does Seig Heils bought it.
That’s the reason? Gosh.
I see X users these days as the frogs in the slow boiling pots.
I sense that some of the people who remain in X had some rationales. Those who liked what they saw in terms of abuse or bad behaviour would naturally stay for more.
Perhaps others felt their voices would resist mis/disinformation, or contribute to greater discussion. But, those who chose to stay, regardless of reason, ended up conditioning themselves to receive or disregard abuse beyond all sense.
Now the platform clearly violates its members, and Musk has once again affirmed publicly that he is a white supremacist. Users - including government accounts - who remain have unwittingly become members of an extremist, white supremacist website that peddles CSAM materials.
I think it's the stuff of movies, and something a villain, like the Joker, would have done.
I used to be on there, and when I look back in from time to time I see more and more of both accounts I followed that have become inactive and accounts I followed that stayed and have gone far right. People who I never would have expected to go that way but who stayed on that platform keep getting pulled towards fascism, white supremacy, and might makes right worldviews. It's awful to see.
I'll point out that others say similar things about Reddit.
Musk is a threat to the entire world I don’t understand why anyone would use anything from his overinflated Enron empire
I have been writing the MPs to get off of US big tech for a while.