The obvious solution for these kinds of public entities is to spin up a mastodon instance to post their own alerts and updates that the public can subscribe to. That way the city is not beholden to someone else’s platform philosophy…if only everyone could agree to one social web protocol.
Each city running its own? No, that’s way too much duplication of effort. Maybe have one run by the federal government, like the .gov domain.
If it’s unified under the federal government, then an asshole president can mess with it.
If it’s distributed, with states and major cities having their own instances, then it’s more asshole-resistant.
Why would we ever elect an asshole president though?
The city government spinning up its own instance makes sense. You could then have accounts for the various departments, transit, road and highway, parks and rec, the library, the mayor’s office…
“Asshole resistant” sounds like marketing terms used to advertise a dildo to a community that enjoys consentual non-consent.
Like they want a dildo that doesn’t go into assholes easily.
How about a state/province level instance for municipal affairs?
Reasonable, but I think there would be more reliability and adoption if provided by the federal government. For example, I don’t really trust states like Alabama to run services like this properly.
I trust my city government a hell of a lot more than I trust the incoming federal administration.
I would trust a guy named Shank who sells fake IDs on the bus more than I trust the incoming federal administration.
At least you know Shank is on your side. No ulterior motive working for the billionaire class. He’s just as fucked by the system as you are.
Why not all of the above? Each state can run their own and smaller cities and towns can use it. If larger cities want to host their own, then they can do that instead of relying on state instance.
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“Asshole resistant”
I love that concept.
I don’t think they realize how easy (and low risk) it can be to set up a Mastodon server. Particularly when you don’t have to allow the public to create accounts.
Sounds great. I think it is super valuable to have an RSS feed so that people can subscribe in all sorts of ways. Having ActivityPub is also nice.
Iirc you can subscribe to any mastodon account via RSS already no?
But yes, regardless I think RSS is a must.
Yes, that is why I said “Sounds great”.
Ahh OK. Makes sense now. I just read it wrong at first.
I thought that band broke up years ago - they must be like 80 now.
And here I am thinking at first glance they were talking about the band
They haven’t used that name since 1969. You just wake up from a coma?
