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[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 days ago (1 children)

That's because conservatives are pedophiles who sex-traffic children.

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 3 days ago (12 children)

This is what happens when governments rely on a private corporate service for public announcements

Every government should just adopt a fediverse instance of some sort, maintain it and push that to everyone to use as a public announcement service. That way it would not be controlled, manipulated, lost or disconnected if they had full control over it all the time.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 days ago (6 children)

This is a solved problem

Shit catches fire in Australia and we get text messages.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

All shitstain muskrat's shrieking 'Pedo' at anyone critical of him really feels like projection in this context.

As most things do when it comes to the exceptionally primitive conservative reptile-brain.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 days ago

This happened to me in Missouri about 6 months ago. Couldn’t view the amber alert because twitter.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Elon Musk hates Americans, pass it on.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

They won't believe it if he tells us that himself...

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

This has been annoying me as well, so many city services got used to just using twitter and then Elon took over and now you just can't find out about things unless you have an X account. Shortly after the change to X I drove hours to use a hiking trail that was closed - I checked the conditions on the park service's website, but it was using a twitter feed and the top post was "trail is open, come on in!" because it had been changed to show the top post of all time instead of the newest post.

There should be some non-profit funded by cities that's basically just a webpage where cities can post important info, or maybe they can have their own mastodon node.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

RSS is as old as the internet but it's been effectively killed, except for the websites that host it accidentally. Our city and The Orange House has one but it's only limited information posted there.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

RSS really should be more common.

You use to get RSS feeds for Twitter accounts. AFAIR. So Twitter accounts were effectively RSS notification feeds at one point.

Aaron Swartz was involved in developing RSS v1.0 too, cofounder of Reddit.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago

Why the hell would they make the alert link to a post on anything instead of just having the relevant info in the alert? I've had at least 2 amber alerts come through and a few earthquake warnings as well, and they just had all the info you needed in the alert pop up itself.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago

Ironically, when I tried to load Wired’s story about this travesty, Wired quickly hid the content with pop-over asking me to subscribe.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago
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