The Social Security Administration (SSA) unveiled Thursday that it would use the social platform X to make announcements going forward, instead of traditional press releases or memos typically posted to the agency’s website.

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    09 days ago

    Kind of crazy to me that governments aren’t massively interested in hosting their own fediverse instances. It has huge appeal of providing announcements on a broader platform while also controlling your instance and still being from a .gov source.

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      09 days ago

      That requires IT knowledge from a recent decade. Many municipalities have only recently discovered dialup internet.

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      08 days ago

      It makes no sense for the SSA to run a fediverse instance, because they don’t need to host community discussions.

      They need to be posting on their website with an RSS feed, just like every other institution.