I don’t get it, either. The White House has a website, which is certainly a place they could announce it. Further, there’s nothing stopping the government from hosting their own Mastodon instance, specifically for communications like that. Using X seems like an endorsement of the platform, and the person currently calling the shots.
Right, if they just published it on their own website, it would be all over the internet very quickly. I agree that government agencies should just run a Mastodon instance too. They don’t need the reach of TwitX for anything. It’s a dying, for profit platform run by a total scumbag who is currently trying to put his thumb on the scales for Republicans, why would the Biden admin use it for official announcements? Let someone else post it on ‘X’.
I don’t get it, either. The White House has a website, which is certainly a place they could announce it. Further, there’s nothing stopping the government from hosting their own Mastodon instance, specifically for communications like that. Using X seems like an endorsement of the platform, and the person currently calling the shots.
Right, if they just published it on their own website, it would be all over the internet very quickly. I agree that government agencies should just run a Mastodon instance too. They don’t need the reach of TwitX for anything. It’s a dying, for profit platform run by a total scumbag who is currently trying to put his thumb on the scales for Republicans, why would the Biden admin use it for official announcements? Let someone else post it on ‘X’.