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Another, unrelated, example of the shift in thinking in the Dutch government is about an unanimously adopted motion in the House of Representatives. Last week saw a major storm, and the fire department send out an emergency text warning to people, urging them to check Twitter for the latest updates. However, this coincided with Twitter preventing people who do not have accounts from viewing tweets, resulting in people not being able to see emergency service updates

Yikes

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I love how fast they are with this. Some random IT guy to his boss: Oh we can’t use Twitter anymore, let me spin up a mastodon server real quick, no probs.

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That. It was a big thing during the storm, and the fire departments weren’t all known with the Twitter policy changes and decided to ditch twitter ar all after that situation.

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Need to thank Musk and Spez for pushing their users to the fediverse.

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american headline: 12 states vote to re-legalize indentured servitude in order to pay off medical debt

dutch headline:

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Yeah we already got most of that other shit figured out

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Second? Third? Or fourth? Have they ever made it to the finish line the past 13 years?

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Yeah Rutte finally got out. It was time for a change frankly. Although he gets a lot of hate I’m sure he tried to do what he thought was right.

Yeah biking here is pretty nice, always sucks to go to another county just to remember that the bike infrastructure is either bad or non existent.

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This is the way.

Now their politicians and national broadcasting services just need to engage with the public on mastodon and we’ll be getting somewhere.

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The more users Mastodon has, the bigger the incentive for public figures to be there.

I created a Mastodon account today, so I’m doing my part.

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No they won’t, they happy to all pay Twitter for a checkmark.

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What would that accomplish, people that don’t have an account still won’t be able to see the tweets.

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dutch slay

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Heh. During the Trump administration when all the Republican elected officials we’re shouting Free Speech In Social Media because Trump was getting factchecked on Twitter, we fantasized about a state-serves social media platform that would be as free-speechy as the state legally allowed.

Not that it would be useful except to point at it and say if you don’t moderate your platform, it’ll turn into this!

I expected some poor bureaucrat would have to clear all the CSAM but the furry-futa porn would remain, as would all the advertisements for penis pills and Nigerian princes. The hate speech would stay up but get tracked until someone got radicalized by it.

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You do know that this server isn’t open to registration and is only for government agencies / personnel?

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Why read when you could just angrypost, I guess.

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