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"Public institutions are funded by taxpayers' money: their communications serve public interests and should be open to all - without the need of creating social media accounts on proprietary, for-profit closed systems. This is especially salient for European governmental communications: isn’t it absurd that they would require social media accounts owned and run by U.S. based companies?"
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📝 New post 🚀"Openness, transparency and reach: three reasons why public institutions should embrace the Fediverse"
🔗 : blog.elenarossini.com/openness…
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Openness, transparency and reach: three reasons why public institutions should embrace the Fediverse
An article making the case that the Fediverse is a fantastic communication platform for public institutions - because of its openness, transparency and reach.Elena Rossini
Elena Rossini ⁂
in reply to Nicolas Fressengeas • • •thank you for sharing this Nicolas!
It's an argument I have pretty much everyday with people in my life who keep defending these practices because "everyone is on Facebook, it' so easy, blah blah blah."
Next January I will celebrate my 10 YEARS off of Facebook 🤗
Nicolas Fressengeas
in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂ • • •@_elena
Waow ! 👏 I must confess I completely forgot when I dumped Facebook. Might be around 10 years too. Never had Instagram. And dropped off my last Meta agent, WhatsApp, last year (April first !).
This latter was the toughest