Comment on After a year of operation, Switzerland's government closes its Mastodon instance

Camus@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• joelthelion@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Sad but unfortunately fairly justified. Hard to justify spending public money on 3,500 users.

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  • AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    How much funding does a single software instance serving 3500 users really require? I could probably run it off my desktop.

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    • joelthelion@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      When you’re a government, you need a little more process to ensure things are done well (moderation, security, …). Even something simple like that could take valuable time from quite a few people.

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      • AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        You do. But the point stands, on the scale of a govt budget, having a single full time employee (and even that is honestly overkill) is a drop in the ocean.

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  • Camus@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    J’ai quand même l’impression qu’ils auraient pu prévenir avant de prendre leur décision. Ça aurait encouragé les gens à suivre le compte, et aurait pu montrer la réactivité plus organique du Fedivers par rapport aux réseaux sociaux corporate

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• FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Vraiment dommage :(

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