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Californians Say X Blocked Them From Viewing Amber Alert About Missing 14-Year-Old(www.wired.com)

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taladar@sh.itjust.works
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Honestly, Mastodon is better than Twitter of course but I would still prefer them to post official stuff on a website that isn’t social media at all.

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asyncopation@lemm.ee
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I agree, but this would only work if people used RSS in the mainstream. They should but they don’t. So it seems posting to a social account that people can follow for updates is the path of least resistance.

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taladar@sh.itjust.works
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I am not saying they can’t post links to the posts to all social media platforms, just that the actual post should be on some regular website.

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Da Bald Eagul@feddit.nl
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They do both - Mastodon is easier to follow with notifications, and the official site serves more of an archival purpose.

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AeonFelis@lemmy.world
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Why? As long as the host it and moderate it, why does it matter that the platform’s code was created as social media?

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taladar@sh.itjust.works
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Mainly because most social media isn’t really very well made for the purpose of making sure you have seen every post (anything with upvotes/downvotes) or limit the content of a post (microblog-style social media, video/image focused social media).

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𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚒𝚛𝚖𝚊𝚗 𝙼𝚎𝚘𝚠@programming.dev
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They do that as well. The social media post will contain a brief synopsis and will link to a government website for more information.

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taladar@sh.itjust.works
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Then they shouldn’t link to the social media post from elsewhere though as described in the article.

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