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Forcing people to use Facebook (or other proprietary monopolistic corporations) to get updates on essential services should be illegal.
Luckily I'm offgrid and so I'm just looking as a tourist but the point stands. Grrrrrrrrrr.

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in reply to Niall in Raglan :laserkiwi:

> Forcing people to use Facebook (or other proprietary monopolistic corporations) to get updates on essential services should be illegal

100%. See my recent quote from a post on public service use of the fediverse;

mastodon.nzoss.nz/@strypey/112…


"So here is a call from the NZOSS to the New Zealand Government to set up a Government centric Mastodon instance to provide a conduit for Agencies, Departments, Entities, Schools, Councils, DHB's and any other central or local government organisation to disseminate pertinent information in real time."

#CarlKlitscher, May 2022

nzoss.nz/node/2168

#Aotearoa #NZ #GovernmentIT


in reply to Niall in Raglan :laserkiwi:

> Have you had any engagement?

Not as far as I know.

As an aside, I'm part of a new co-op working on a fediverse hosting service. Part of our goal is giving public service entities (governmental or otherwise) a way to create their own fediverse presence, at a predictable cost, with no new work for existing staff.

bridgeseat.substack.com/p/comi…

in reply to Strypey

I'm part of a new co-op working on a fediverse hosting service. Part of our goal is giving public service entities (governmental or otherwise) a way to create their own fediverse presence, at a predictable cost, with no new work for existing staff.

bridgeseat.substack.com/p/comi…

#BridgeSeat #fediverse #PublicService

@Niall