Dutch government starts own Mastodon instance as reaction to the instability of Twitter - eviltoast
  • sparr@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    They could have used a mailing list or an rss feed or half a dozen other solutions that don’t require a special website or government app.

    • TheThirdPoliceman@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      I don’t want my government spamming my inbox with updates. I don’t know how active government Twitter accounts tend to be but I suspect there are plenty of things that are significant enough to announce via some platform but not significant enough that they merit an email.

      RSS would be great and I fully support governments using it. But sadly in this day and age it would reach significantly fewer people than Twitter.