Comment by rideontime
1 day ago
An open platform could be as simple as hosting their own website. You don’t need to be in a “bubble” to know about websites.
1 day ago
An open platform could be as simple as hosting their own website. You don’t need to be in a “bubble” to know about websites.
“As simple as hosting their own website” is contradictory for a majority of the people using the internet.
The context of the thread is public institutions.
I promise you, most public institutions are capable of hosting a web site or running a bluesky account
They choose not to because no one uses them. To get views for political purposes you have to use social media like blue sky and the fediverse
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We are talking about organizations here who are communicating with the public.
Go ask your mom why she never posts on her own website, but does on closed platform social media. Her answer will be the same as all the people outside of the tech bubble you're in.
My mum used to blog on her own website daily, and she's not tech savvy at all
Who bought the domain for her, and went through the hoops (usually modifying DNS records) to verify it with the blog provider?
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This is not a conversation about mothers. The root of this thread was referring to "accessibility of public-facing government communications."
> My tolerance for people posting to X without also posting to an open platform is over.
> Public institutions especially.
> There's zero excuse, none.
Maybe it wasn't their intent, but they clearly wrote it as a more general statement, with an additional and specific intolerance to public institutions, which is also how others interpreted it.