Comment on After a year of operation, Switzerland's government closes its Mastodon instance
onlinepersona@programming.dev 4 months ago
Decisions like these are why they can’t move away from proprietary platforms. How much does it really cost to host and maintain this? A single employee could host a mastodon, peertube, and lemmy instance. The employee could also work full-time on one of the projects to address issues.
They also only had 6 accounts on the instance - out of how many politicians and bureaus?
Anyway… shame.
lud@lemm.ee 4 months ago
The main cost is probably the extra workload put on their social media team having to publish to and interact with even more platforms.
While it’s nice, I also don’t think the government should spend time and money on a platform that people obviously don’t use much.
Omniraptor@lemm.ee 4 months ago
I would assume they’d use syndication software that could plug into mastodon as well as the proprietary networks. If they’re already syndicating posts between twitter Facebook and Instagram what’s one more network?
JupiterRowland@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
They’ve yet to be caught actually interacting with someone. They’ve run the whole instance as nothing but a shoutbox.