The reason is because average people don’t know anything that some company didn’t benefit from teaching them. So, most people don’t know what the fuck RSS is.
I work in local government. We post everywhere Neenah the information is important. Yeah, we have our own self-hosted feed, and we have a grand total of 7 non-employee/non-official subscribers versus thousands on Twitter and Facebook.
The government using it for bulletins, especially for emergency announcements, is such ridiculous bullshit. Like what in the actual fuck?
There is literally no reason this can’t be done with an RSS feed which is an open standard that has been around since 1999.
And it’s easier than ever before for governments to host their own Mastodon instance on their government domain.
Which, to be clear, can also be followed without an account by just using the RSS feed of it.
I think theyre wary of moderation duties.
They don’t have to enable comments. Other communities can federate and comment on their instance.
True but theyre also terribly disconnected from the wired so it will probably be another 10 years before they get to where we are at now
The reason is because average people don’t know anything that some company didn’t benefit from teaching them. So, most people don’t know what the fuck RSS is.
I work in local government. We post everywhere Neenah the information is important. Yeah, we have our own self-hosted feed, and we have a grand total of 7 non-employee/non-official subscribers versus thousands on Twitter and Facebook.
We go where the people are.
It drives me nuts that it’s used for diplomacy too.