In an unforeseen turn of events, Twitter has decided to test user patience by cloistering tweets behind a sign-in wall
Twitter was one of the few socials where government agencies could publish to the masses. Everyday Twitter erodes its worth for short-term wealth.
In hindsight, it seems absurd that we collectively trust a for-profit company to disseminate official information. Governments should probably take this opportunity to spin up their own Mastodon instances and migrate away from Twitter.
Germany of all countries has dippped into it: https://social.bund.de/
Not quite sure how this works without fax machines, but it does.
Judging by the number of German posts I see on here as well, it seems Germany is very receptive to the idea of the fediverse.
The European Commission is on Mastodon and are seeing how it goes there. They post fairly routinely.
I also liked seeing Thierry Breton there but it seems he’s not active anymore :/
