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      Actually, the German government was one of the first public entities adopting Mastodon as a secondary communication channel when shit hit the fan with regard to Musk and Twitter:

      Here is their official Mastodon account!

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        But that’s the account of the Federal Government. The Kanzler himself still has his official account on X and has none on Mastodon.

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          Yeah, that’s unfortunately correct - hopefully their instance / server gets broader adoption by cabinet members in the future, but for the moment I consider it a good start…

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      What do you mean? Because everybody should be able to read what the chancellor writes.

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        I guess the question if why don’t they directly publish the content on the website without going through Twitter

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        Agreed. If someone sends me a twitter link, even if public, I can’t read it as my privacy settings are such that they can’t get a unique ID on me. It forces a log in. Which I can’t, and won’t do.

        My colleague can view public tweets, even if not logged in, as we assume Twitter can uniquely identify them, even if not logged in.

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          They’ve stopped forcing a log in entirely, usually you can view the post that’s linked just not any subsequent posts (which of course still ruins post threads, where the user spreads a single post over multiple entries).

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        Or just use a different platform? Other large public entities have, like the BBC, CBC etc.

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            My guess would be because of the reach? Like, Twitter has a lot of users and a lot of important figures in politics worldwide use it. Not that many people, both as in political figures, and small users use the Fediverse.

            But then again, you could just do both.

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              My guess would be because of the reach?

              I use neither Mastodon nor Twitter (I’ve never understood the value of microblogging) but one of them is freely available, the other one is restricted. In my view – as someone who has no account on either platform and only occasionally goes there if it’s linked somewhere – Mastodon has a much wider reach.

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              Hopefully when twitterx goes extinct the German Chancellor will just spin up their own instance and federate their content.

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    I was researching a fire the other day for work, just wanted to verify basic facts. Local FD posted incidents on Twitter. Nope. Couldn’t manage to view it. That’s bullshit. They absolutely should not use it for that reason and to boot helping a megalomaniac make money.

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      I’m sure the Germans in the thread are scratching their heads at this comment wondering what’s wrong with scanning faxes.

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        Right. Why write something so obvious? “Oh, he probably breathes air as well.” Look, I can do that too.

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    It is a closed system. I tried to look at a company’s news the other day, they post it on twitter/X/musk-vanity-project.com. If you’re not logged in, you cannot (as far as I can work out) get tweets in chronological order any more. They DO have tweets made in the last few months. But I’m seeing 2019/2020 for pages and pages.

    If you’re not a user, that site is entirely useless now. Better to just wait for businesses to realise this and GTFO to a proper website. Not this Mickey Mouse toy of Musk’s.