• Toribor@corndog.social
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    2 months ago

    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.

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      2 months ago

      And it’s easier than ever before for governments to host their own Mastodon instance on their government domain.

    • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      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.

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      2 months ago

      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.