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This has been annoying me as well, so many city services got used to just using twitter and then Elon took over and now you just can't find out about things unless you have an X account. Shortly after the change to X I drove hours to use a hiking trail that was closed - I checked the conditions on the park service's website, but it was using a twitter feed and the top post was "trail is open, come on in!" because it had been changed to show the top post of all time instead of the newest post.
There should be some non-profit funded by cities that's basically just a webpage where cities can post important info, or maybe they can have their own mastodon node.
RSS is as old as the internet but it's been effectively killed, except for the websites that host it accidentally. Our city and The Orange House has one but it's only limited information posted there.
RSS really should be more common.
You use to get RSS feeds for Twitter accounts. AFAIR. So Twitter accounts were effectively RSS notification feeds at one point.
Aaron Swartz was involved in developing RSS v1.0 too, cofounder of Reddit.
Aaron would be sadly disappointed, but probably unsurprised that we allowed the internet devolve to it's current state. Mastodon still supports RSS so that would be effectively the same thing.