A number of governments (France, Germany, Switzerland, Netherlands), international organisations (The European Union, The Council of Europe, W3C etc), public broadcasters (ZDF, the BBC, PBS/NPR affiliates etc) have set up servers or accounts on the Fediverse.
Please ask public services in your country/region/area to follow their lead. I can do a shoutout on @FediFollows to help get them started.
Musk's Twitter hides all its accounts behind a sign-in page, so it's no longer a public channel.
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in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •Your last point is very important. I lose respect for organizations that post their up to date information on Facebook and/or Xhitter. Not because of Zuck and Musk (though they are awful) but because the systems are closed to people who choose not to use the service.
So, I can't see a businesses hours on a holiday because I don't have a Facebook account? OK, I'll just go somewhere else then.
And of course organizations which are or seek to serve all people should be using, if not just open systems, then as many systems as possible and as many open systems as possible.
Fedi.Tips
in reply to MylesRyden • • •Yeah, exactly. It's not so bad with restaurants because you can go elsewhere, but almost everyone depends on public services in one form or other so it's problematic to hide public service info on platforms that require membership to view.
Ideally they would also offer RSS so it could easily be mirrored on other platforms too. Most Fedi platforms (including Mastodon) have RSS feeds of public-visibility posts built-in.
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MylesRyden
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •I understand that updating an actual website can be somewhat problematic for even a large organization, but definitely yes, they should have some completely open way to give updates to people.
I am not sure if FB/Deadbird apis still allow a website to show the latest posts of a feed. If they do, it still not ideal, but at least better.
Rudy
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •it's gotta be said -- Mastodon's search function is weak
do you have actual accounts you could list, especially for those broadcasters?
Dragon-sided D
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in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •Konstantin Weddige
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •And please ask your Members of Parliament/Congress/House/etc. to join the Fediverse. A democracy needs a town square that is accessible to everyone.
For German politicians I am happy to offer a #newbiebonus.
Jess
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •Good luck getting any alphabet agencies in the US to run a Mastodon box. Local municipal orgs might. I'd start with public libraries ❤️
Also RSS is great, but good luck getting the average person to use it. Still too techy for most, meh meh.
FediFollows
in reply to Jess • • •@jesswill42
Oh yeah, grassroots is definitely good starting point 👍 There's a US public library at @VernonLibrary for example.
"RSS is great, but good luck getting the average person to use it"
They don't need to use it directly, the main advantage of RSS is it allows mirrors to be easily set up on any social network or website, which can then be followed or read like any normal social media account or site. For example @APoD is a Fediverse mirror of an official RSS feed from NASA.
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