@danhon No more people being aware that the bus is late, the road is closed, there’s an air quality/heat emergency, free public health services are available, there’s a public hearing, they have new employment rights due to a local ordinance, the city is hiring, etc.

@danhon just to reinforce what we all seem to have to keep relearning - you can't depend on a private company for a public good

@danhon the ones with a mastodon account do

@danhon Yeah, that's something I've been wondering about too

Especially in the context of, elected officials making 'public' statements on a platform that only registered users can see? That seems, uh, problematic?

@danhon And advertisers!

@danhon Has anyone started a directory of public institutions with a mastodon feed? I don’t know where to go looking for such feeds..

@danhon Public agencies aided Twitter's sales practices.

@danhon I wish I had so much money I could spend 10x too much to buy a service that people depended on and strip out everything that made it good for no f-cking reason.

Not that I would do that. I would take that money and use it to get food to hungry people and forgive unpaid medical debts.

@danhon so will localities/state govs/ngos start booting up their own masto servers, do we think? Do we get a federal gov server?

@danhon Again the weight of the world is resting on the autistic temp that doesn't know you shouldn't rock the boat.

@danhon @mhoye “free speech absolutism”

@danhon True! I just tested it; can’t see any Twitter account unless I’m logged in. I would not have known this otherwise; I never go there. I remember that Musk was obsessed several months ago with the Twitter “landing page” and had several engineers swap things around so that people would see this or that and not that or this.

@danhon Probably not. Just like public institutions don't seem to be aware that having their information only on Facebook is not very accessible.

@danhon most don't even know that Nitter or other Twitter preview thingies exist. How do we tell them?

@danhon

^ this
@ulrichkelber
@PWS_1

@danhon wherever you see them using the Twitter logo anywhere on a public service it should be taken down. It is anti-competitive.

@danhon

Musk: "It's only temporal"

Which just means: "We're testing the waters."

@danhon
I have actively been seeking news on newly published books and promotions in the timelines of some publishers. Some of them never made it off twitter. I'll have difficulties from now on, staying up to date with them.
I'm not sure they're aware. They're not on mastodon, so I cannot reach them and point out the problem....

@danhon Nice account name over here👌Do you have a tweet of your remark? I’d retweet it as I expect it makes more sense to talk about Twitter on the other side.

@danhon What's Twitter?

@danhon

If only there was some sort of free to access public network, where companies publishe news and people can somehow could view it. But like teletext, but with some sort of modern twist.

It could be some sort in interconnected network using computers that somehow connect to each other. Like a spider web over the whole planet.

Then, anyone anywhere could read the news of any company.

That said, doubt it’d take off.

@danhon Tweets embedded in a newspaper story or blog post are still readable. There’s one mistake they didn’t make.

@danhon and a lot of those are right-wing or extreme radicals, rather human-hostile - or at least hostile to #humanrights

@danhon don't even think they care. not even a little bit.

@danhon they do and they probably don't care, since they literally pay $2000+ for verification and stuff, which is a huge problem.

@danhon Holy **** is this a new development or did I just not notice until now?
#twitter

@danhon @Gargron I think I am gonna rewrite them now…. That they realize

@danhon If only there were a simple proven standard with lots of code for subscribing to publication events. And then tools for quickly generating small web pages with perhaps a default chronologic order.

Yes, I know such technology is beyond us. Perhaps a god-like AI will develop Really Simple Syndication.

(PS. I know you know :-)

@danhon No they do not😋

@danhon@dan.mastohon.com it's fine. you just need to sign up, and make sure to read every tweet made by Musk before posting anything, in case you break any of his arbitrarily made up rules only anounced in his timeline (no Fediverse links, don't use the word "cis", etc..). Then you can access public news 🙃

@danhon I read an article about Elon Musk taking ketamine on a regular basis. If the article is true, it would explain a lot.

@danhon
https://mastodon.social/@jnbrgr/110637997708211481