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The Dutch government used Twitter for a lot of information (though this was often if not always found on their own websites as well), but now they host their own Mastodon instance for any gov related stuff that can be used by government agencies in conjunction with or as a replacement for Twitter. Which is pretty cool imo.
Honestly, Mastodon is better than Twitter of course but I would still prefer them to post official stuff on a website that isn't social media at all.
They do that as well. The social media post will contain a brief synopsis and will link to a government website for more information.
Then they shouldn't link to the social media post from elsewhere though as described in the article.
They do both - Mastodon is easier to follow with notifications, and the official site serves more of an archival purpose.
I agree, but this would only work if people used RSS in the mainstream. They should but they don't. So it seems posting to a social account that people can follow for updates is the path of least resistance.
I am not saying they can't post links to the posts to all social media platforms, just that the actual post should be on some regular website.
Why? As long as the host it and moderate it, why does it matter that the platform's code was created as social media?
Mainly because most social media isn't really very well made for the purpose of making sure you have seen every post (anything with upvotes/downvotes) or limit the content of a post (microblog-style social media, video/image focused social media).
I hope many organizations and groups follow suit.