If it's not the case currently, it should be, that public institutions MUST make their public statements widely available. The old POSSE way seems correct. Blocked, or EULA'd or Paywalled on third-party platforms doesn't do that.

And I'm sure all of you people crying shared this same concern when it was Twitter. I'm sure you can bring receipts of you crying about it back then too.

An open platform could be as simple as hosting their own website. You don’t need to be in a “bubble” to know about websites.

“As simple as hosting their own website” is contradictory for a majority of the people using the internet.

The context of the thread is public institutions.

I promise you, most public institutions are capable of hosting a web site or running a bluesky account

They choose not to because no one uses them. To get views for political purposes you have to use social media like blue sky and the fediverse

Why should public institutions be trying to get views for political purposes? Isn't that directly contrary to the intended role of public institutions in a democracy?

Because they want to win the next election? Corruption basically.

Bingo. It's not the "institutions" doing it, it's whichever elected officials we're trusting to run it at the time abusing their positions.

We are talking about organizations here who are communicating with the public.

Go ask your mom why she never posts on her own website, but does on closed platform social media. Her answer will be the same as all the people outside of the tech bubble you're in.

My mum used to blog on her own website daily, and she's not tech savvy at all

Who bought the domain for her, and went through the hoops (usually modifying DNS records) to verify it with the blog provider?

I obviously don't know about that person's mom, but a lot of hosting platforms and blog providers will do that for you if you don't want to do it yourself.

Wordpress, I believe

This is not a conversation about mothers. The root of this thread was referring to "accessibility of public-facing government communications."

> My tolerance for people posting to X without also posting to an open platform is over.

> Public institutions especially.

> There's zero excuse, none.

Maybe it wasn't their intent, but they clearly wrote it as a more general statement, with an additional and specific intolerance to public institutions, which is also how others interpreted it.