• @Anticorp@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Don’t you love how the government is supporting private for-profit businesses? I received an amber alert 2 days ago and when I clicked the link it took me to Twitter. I don’t have a Twitter account and the page wouldn’t load. What in the actual fuck? Our government is using a website run by an insane man-child for critical infrastructure.

      • @Anticorp@lemmy.world
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        121 year ago

        My point is that they should have a dedicated public service website that they use for these sorts of things.

        • Ghostalmedia
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          1 year ago

          Your state or county is probably using what was identified as an easy and accessible solution several years ago. It was probably selected because it was something any yahoo could easily access and post to.

          Now that there are a lot of cheap and easy FOSS alternatives, it probably wouldn’t be too hard to petition for a ballot initiative that required these alerts to be published on a state masto instance or something.

    • Flax
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      31 year ago

      The sooner they use the fediverse the better