California amber alert that went to a twitter link
California amber alert that went to a twitter link
People were interested in what it looked like so this is from my phone.
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This is why governments should use public infrastructure for public services.
177 2 ReplyI wish the federal government had a software team that made open source software that could be used by all the states.
58 0 ReplyImagine if there was a free and open source self hosted alternative to twitter that federated with other social networks...
38 0 ReplyI wonder what their downtime would be. I hope they'd host it on rented servers just for that reason
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Germany is/was trying something kind of like this? I don't know much about it but here's a link in case you want to try reading into it a bit more.
16 0 ReplyI think something like code sharing just became a thing in government so I guess it's closer
9 0 ReplyUSDS
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Can you imagine a mastodon.whitehouse.gov instance and everyone in the world just defederates with it every time a republican gets inaugerated?
19 0 ReplyIt would be an absolute shithole with almost 0 moderation due to 1a applicability. Defederation would happen regardless of who has gov majority.
4 0 ReplyJust don't allow random people to make accounts
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I can, but it would still be effective for public announcements because Mastodon does not typically require a login to view on the web, and it provides am RSS feed. Walled garden platforms that won't show posts to anonymous web visitors are not acceptable for public announcements.
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Well, duh!
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