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tweets were on twitter.
On X it's called x-crements.
this post was submitted on 17 Aug 2023
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X-eets and x-itter.
Use the Chinese pronunciation
Somebody tell him to use Mastodon
Actually, the German government was one of the first public entities adopting Mastodon as a secondary communication channel when shit hit the fan with regard to Musk and Twitter:
Here is their official Mastodon account!
But that's the account of the Federal Government. The Kanzler himself still has his official account on X and has none on Mastodon.
Yeah, that's unfortunately correct - hopefully their instance / server gets broader adoption by cabinet members in the future, but for the moment I consider it a good start...
That's really cool 😎 ! today I learned something new
Smart. Smarter would be not using X, but a lot of people still use X.
Why go through the hassle? EDIT: I mean as in "Just stop using X"
What do you mean? Because everybody should be able to read what the chancellor writes.
I guess the question if why don't they directly publish the content on the website without going through Twitter
Because people may want to express their opinion on what the chancellor says
Then use https://social.bund.de/
Oh sure, a platform that basically no one knows compared to twitter
All platforms started somewhere.
If the German government were to make an official announcement that they are switching to https://social.bund.de/ on the television, most of the interested German people would open an account overnight.
Yet another reason to serve this as a static content instead of using Twitter!
Agreed. If someone sends me a twitter link, even if public, I can't read it as my privacy settings are such that they can't get a unique ID on me. It forces a log in. Which I can't, and won't do.
My colleague can view public tweets, even if not logged in, as we assume Twitter can uniquely identify them, even if not logged in.
They've stopped forcing a log in entirely, usually you can view the post that's linked just not any subsequent posts (which of course still ruins post threads, where the user spreads a single post over multiple entries).
Or just use a different platform? Other large public entities have, like the BBC, CBC etc.
Oddly enough there is a mastodon instance run by a German federal agency: https://social.bund.de/
No idea why the chancellor doesn't use it.
My guess would be because of the reach? Like, Twitter has a lot of users and a lot of important figures in politics worldwide use it. Not that many people, both as in political figures, and small users use the Fediverse.
But then again, you could just do both.
What reach? He literally needs to repost them elsewhere so people can read them freely.
My guess would be because of the reach?
I use neither Mastodon nor Twitter (I've never understood the value of microblogging) but one of them is freely available, the other one is restricted. In my view – as someone who has no account on either platform and only occasionally goes there if it's linked somewhere – Mastodon has a much wider reach.
Hopefully when twitterx goes extinct the German Chancellor will just spin up their own instance and federate their content.
I was researching a fire the other day for work, just wanted to verify basic facts. Local FD posted incidents on Twitter. Nope. Couldn’t manage to view it. That’s bullshit. They absolutely should not use it for that reason and to boot helping a megalomaniac make money.
Why not just post on his website directly
With how reliant governments are on privately owned social media platforms I sometimes feel some open source social media platform should be run as a public utility so that public communications are at the mercy of wealthy megalomaniacs though I don't know how that would work in practice.
If only there was an open source alternative...
It is a closed system. I tried to look at a company's news the other day, they post it on twitter/X/musk-vanity-project.com. If you're not logged in, you cannot (as far as I can work out) get tweets in chronological order any more. They DO have tweets made in the last few months. But I'm seeing 2019/2020 for pages and pages.
If you're not a user, that site is entirely useless now. Better to just wait for businesses to realise this and GTFO to a proper website. Not this Mickey Mouse toy of Musk's.
He probably scans his faxes as well
I'm sure the Germans in the thread are scratching their heads at this comment wondering what's wrong with scanning faxes.
Right. Why write something so obvious? "Oh, he probably breathes air as well." Look, I can do that too.
and print it out later for the archive
Imagine getting paid to do that.
Is this already piracy?
You wouldn't print a tweet.
"you wouldn't download oil/gas"
You wouldn’t photocopy a fern (it would likely damage its delicate fronds)
Jan Böhmermann, how dare you?