The Social Security Administration (SSA) unveiled Thursday that it would use the social platform X to make announcements going forward, instead of traditional press releases or memos typically posted to the agency’s website.
Kind of crazy to me that governments aren’t massively interested in hosting their own fediverse instances. It has huge appeal of providing announcements on a broader platform while also controlling your instance and still being from a .gov source.
That requires IT knowledge from a recent decade. Many municipalities have only recently discovered dialup internet.
that made me laugh much harder than it should
It makes no sense for the SSA to run a fediverse instance, because they don’t need to host community discussions.
They need to be posting on their website with an RSS feed, just like every other institution.
