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0 pointsriffic5y ago0 comments

This is what happens when you put all of your communication eggs into a single basket.

Twitter needed to be taken down a couple of pegs. I think accounts of a high enough profile may want to closely examine the ActivityPub ecosystem.

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drivebycomment5y ago

What single basket ? All other communications are working just fine - the world is humming along fine.

BiteCode_dev5y ago

We had a decentralized system before. It was called the mainstream medias.

But they lost so much trust from the public that now we turn to social medias.

root_axis5y ago

Ah yes, social media, well known for its reliability as a source of truth.

esotericimpl5y ago

Ah yes the lame stream media. Which such huge gaffes such as......

qrbLPHiKpiux5y ago

Us politicians using twitter to communicate en masse is irresponsible in of itself.

So unprofessional

tehwebguy5y ago

Yes, they should make the constituents come to them! What?

eternalban5y ago

It's called a website. Office holder communicates via his office's offical website. Constituents have email addresses he can email. S/he can setup a slack/zoom/irc channel and have a constituent "town hall".

Tweeting is actually effectively reducing the available bandwidth of communication, and quality of content.

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rifficOP5y ago

Agreed. Any public sector institution should be running its own W3C standards-compliant infrastructure (or should be paying someone else to run this on their behalf).

I envision that the current centralized services could be getting into this business if they were to white-label their applications.

Imagine "Twitter, but for your own domain" in the way that G Suite is Gmail and Google Apps for your domain.

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