In my opinion, every government, public entity, association, foundation, etc., that needs to communicate with the public should have its own communication channel, with full control over its data and the messages it delivers. When I read “my Discord server,” I feel like responding “there’s nothing ‘yours’ about it - tomorrow morning they could shut everything down, and you would have lost EVERYTHING.”. Own your data!
Sometimes, I read that instances are not opened because of “costs not balanced by the number of users.” But even public television channels are often economically unprofitable, yet they are considered an essential service for public communication. Open, decentralized technologies that ensure control over one’s data should be treated the same way.
#OpenData #OwnYourData #Fediverse #CommunicationFreedom
@stefano@bsd.cafe
I can highly recommend to migrate away from discord uaing https://keet.io today or at least to mirror all discord communication using bots to something like https://cabal.chat 🙂
2024 and people are coming up with the idea of websites again…
Like. That’s how the I termer used to work, if you wanted to know about some group. You went to their website, you didn’t try to find a social media account they have
But even public television channels are often economically unprofitable,
You’re surprised non profits don’t make profits?
And why do all these simultaneously obvious but also strangely ignorant posts all coming from people who use their real names on social media?
Did you come here from Facebook or linked in?
@givesomefucks@lemmy.world I believe there has been a misunderstanding: no one is saying we should go back to websites, but rather to open social platforms where users can have control over their own data, which is exactly what the Fediverse is about. And this is precisely why I say that, even if an instance doesn’t generate enough engagement (see what happened with the official Swiss instance, which was shut down on 30 September), this communication channel should still be maintained.
So I think we are on the same wavelength…
no one is saying we should go back to websites, but rather to open social platforms where users can have control over their own data, which is exactly
What websites are…
We are 100% not on the same wavelength, and I don’t think the effort to get you to understand is worth the payoff.
@givesomefucks@lemmy.world …what Mastodon, Lemmy, Gotosocial, snac2, etc. are. - from my point of view.
@stefano@bsd.cafe you mean like the german government mastodon: https://social.bund.de/ ^
@stefano@bsd.cafe what would you recommend as an alternative to Discord where you own your own data?
@stefano@bsd.cafe yes, and I wrote about this same thing! https://andypiper.co.uk/2024/08/15/fediverse-for-freedom/