A growing number of prefectures have stopped posting disaster warnings on the platform due to limits on the number of free posts allowed.

  • stopthatgirl7@kbin.socialOP
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    Thing is, it made sense until Twitter got sold to a capricious billionaire. Twitter was very stable and their rules didn’t change much before then. The APIs made them an easy way to send out a lot of info in a popular, easily to access way. It worked well as a system for both government agencies and citizens, until Elon decided to stick his dick in it.

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      It never made sense. Government should not have favourites in social media. Everything government does should be on an open standard.

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      But thats exactly the problem :) some ego steps in and boom! As a foreign government you simply cant trust that a privatly owned company has your best interest at heart, and they shouldn’t.

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        Yep. The BBC & NPR found that out. Notice that the BBC stood up their own Mastodon instance - they know the value of owning one’s house instead of renting.