Chicago Transit Authority deactivates X social media accounts

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• veeesix@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨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.

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  • catloaf@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨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.

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    • fubo@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨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.

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    • veeesix@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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    • Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨4⁩ ⁨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.

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  • kevincox@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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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    • timbuck2themoon@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Iirc you can subscribe to any mastodon account via RSS already no?

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• randompasta@lemmy.today ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  As should everyone.

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• Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  "After careful consideration, CTA has decided to suspend the use of its general information…accounts on Twitter/X.com

  NOICE

  CTA riders are encouraged to sign up for our subscription alerts available via text/email

  NOOOOO WHY ARE YOU LIKE THIS

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• bobs_monkey@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  And here I am thinking at first glance they were talking about the band

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  • catloaf@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They haven’t used that name since 1969. You just wake up from a coma?

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    • Alexstarfire@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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