Comment on Chicago Transit Authority deactivates X social media accounts

• fubo@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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.

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  • akilou@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Why would we ever elect an asshole president though?

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    • grysbok@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      America elected Andrew Jackson and we learned our lesson. /s

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  • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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.

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• veeesix@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  How about a state/province level instance for municipal affairs?

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  • catloaf@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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.

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    • fubo@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I trust my city government a hell of a lot more than I trust the incoming federal administration.

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    • droporain@lemmynsfw.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Attention the number 12 bus destination “banging your sister” is approaching the station. Roll tide.

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• Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  The fed should probably have their own instance, and the states should each have theirs as well.

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• HubertManne@feddit.online ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I could see the state having the infrastructure but like the agencies cloning the default and putting in their agency specific stuff.

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• meyotch@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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.

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