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.
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veeesix@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
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.
kevincox@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
timbuck2themoon@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Iirc you can subscribe to any mastodon account via RSS already no?
kevincox@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Yes, that is why I said “Sounds great”.
catloaf@lemm.ee 2 months ago
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.
fubo@lemmy.world 2 months ago
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.
akilou@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Why would we ever elect an asshole president though?
grysbok@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months ago
America elected Andrew Jackson and we learned our lesson. /s
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 2 months ago
“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.
veeesix@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
How about a state/province level instance for municipal affairs?
catloaf@lemm.ee 2 months ago
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.
fubo@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I trust my city government a hell of a lot more than I trust the incoming federal administration.
droporain@lemmynsfw.com 2 months ago
Attention the number 12 bus destination “banging your sister” is approaching the station. Roll tide.
Ulrich@feddit.org 2 months ago
The fed should probably have their own instance, and the states should each have theirs as well.
HubertManne@feddit.online 2 months ago
I could see the state having the infrastructure but like the agencies cloning the default and putting in their agency specific stuff.
meyotch@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
Running an instance is pretty trivial from a sysadmin standpoint, so I do lean towards smaller entities just running their own, to prevent monolithic censorship.
They can just disable comments so they don’t have to moderate anything. A county could run just a read-only instance that would have a community for every department that needed to do public communication. The road department could post about a bridge closure, the conservation district could promote a volunteer event, and so forth.