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Post by rglullis »

ShadowBanThis01 wrote: post #415
Solvency wrote: post #409

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I mean... for decades, the public institutions instead relied on private TV networks to do all of their communications. And propaganda. And they still do. How is Twitter any different than FOX News or CNN?

They weren't "private" TV networks. They are licensed by the government to use our airwaves, which are accessible by all (except CNN, which is cable). There's a big difference. Governmental and public institutions should not be relying on Twitter for their communications. It's unprofessional at the very least.

I keep hoping that in the near future we will think of companies/NGOs/influencers/Governmental Institution on twitter as using aol.com for their email.

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Post by dangus »

m4jor wrote: post #333
brushfoot wrote: post #198

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I'm cautiously optimistic about Lemmy. Anyone can spin up an instance, so it's decentralized, but instances are connected, so there's community. It may still be rough around the edges, but to me it feels like the spirit of the old phpBB forums combined with almost 20 years of lessons learned from Reddit.

Lemmy.ml's admin is pro chinese government and actively censors comments that are critical. What that means to you is your decision, but I want to make people aware before the mass migration date arrives. https://old.reddit.com/r/Save3rdPartyApps/comments/14k67qt/l... Highly sus

Isn’t that just one instance? You don’t have to join that one.

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Post by hgs3 »

7e wrote: post #237
akira2501 wrote: post #154

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> This version of the Internet is starting to suck. :( The internet is fine. The highly centralized businesses that built themselves on the technology are meeting their inevitable end.

Why are centralized businesses doomed to fail? It’s been the primary organizational mode for the last 10,000 years.

> It’s been the primary organizational mode for the last 10,000 years.

For most of human history, most businesses were small ma and pa shops operated by a few local people. These days large business chains are the norm. You could say that centralized big business killed the decentralized small ma and pa shops.

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NelsonMinar wrote: post #143
jamesgreenleaf wrote: post #7

Musk commented on this: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1674865731136020505 "Temporary emergency measure. We were getting data pillaged so much that it was degrading service for normal users!"

"Data pillaging", WTF does that mean? Remember when Twitter used to give archives of tweets to the Library of Congress? And had a firehose for folks to consume as many tweets as they could?

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Post by ianai »

I wonder whether an alternative could be like a Reddit or mastodon with paid-for subreddits/servers (not familiar with mastodon) being able to be started like a colocation service ala linode. Ie customers just sign up and the backend provisions them infra as needed. That seems like a way to answer the “nobody wants to run their own server” problem.

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Post by celdon25 »

zmmmmm wrote: post #337

It always irked me that public institutions embraced Twitter as a primary means of communication in many cases. It never seemed right that a private company was being put in between public functions and the the public which depends on them. Not to mention, since I live outside the US, a private company in another country. I even wrote complaints to one local public body to ask them to set up a communication channel t…

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Post by cvoss »

hedora wrote: post #151

Uggh. I only use twitter to follow critical (life-and-death) emergency broadcasts from our local fire department. Is there a viable alternative for them to use now that twitter is going to block most of our county’s residents?

If the local authorities have an actual life-and-death emergency broadcast to make to the entire area they serve, I suspect they have a more effective means to do this than Twitter. As a matter of public safety, they need to be able to inform everyone, whether they've subscribed or not, and in a way that does not require users to think to check for a notification, or even to have a special device (like a cellphone to receive push notifications). Those extra mechanisms are great and helpful, but they don't replace a true public emergency notification mechanism.

Where I live, the tornado siren, which is beyond extremely loud and mounted high up on a pole in the highest point in the neighborhood, can be used to broadcast PSAs. It screams "THIS IS ONLY A TEST" at noon on the first Wednesday of every month. And you hear it whether you want to or not.

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