• qupada@kbin.social
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    8 months ago

    It does however affect getting updates from government agencies, and others who insist on only disseminating real-time information to the public via Twitter.

    For instance: https://twitter.com/WakaKotahiWgtn

    This is the account for traffic events (road closures, traffic accidents, etc) in my city. Not signed in, the latest visible post is from February 2023.

    Since I don’t have a twitter account, this is now functionally useless.

    • threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works
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      8 months ago

      the latest visible post is from February 2023

      If you scroll down far enough, there are posts from March and August, but they were “less popular” tweets. Incredibly annoying move by twitter. Who wants to regularly view tweets sorted by “Top All Time”?

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      8 months ago

      Go to the city’s website, they should still have that information accessable via government sites. Buried, but it should still exist.

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        8 months ago

        While true, the point is that Twitter does require sign in to view content, regardless of that information is elsewhere.

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          8 months ago

          Have you tried contacting your government for this issue? From my experience public services are often open about Mastodon once they realize it’s the same thing as Twitter, but accessible to everyone.

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            8 months ago

            I have not. I personally don’t live in a region where disaster notices are often necessary and I don’t have offspring that I have to care for that may be affected, so I’m not really the demographic for the service. I do hope more and more start branching out to the likes of Mastodon or maybe better yet, hosting their own instances.