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Tried to look at an Amber Alert today
(lemmy.world)
I have a long commute in and out of a large city. Since I spend so much time on the road, I always try to get the details of Amber Alert notifications to be on the lookout for vehicles used in abductions. I guess I can't do that anymore since Twitter requires an account to see Amber Alerts. Hopefully my state finds another platform to post them.
I didn't even consider the fact that the fediverse offers us the ability to start having publicly owned social media and government-run instances for direct communication.
That could be very interesting...
Most governments struggle to manage a website, much less a fediverse instance. It’s a good idea though.
But at least instead of coding their own awesome website, they just have to spin up an instance using someone else's code....
Yeah okay fine. I can see many ways one can mess this up.
Various EU agencies have already set up their own Mastodon instances and are pretty active in the fediverse.