A growing number of prefectures have stopped posting disaster warnings on the platform due to limits on the number of free posts allowed.

  • Johannes Jacobs
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    622 years ago

    I never understood why official goverment body’s do that anyway. Maintaining your own infra means you have full control. This should be mandatory for any government body. Not beeing dependant on big tech who make up silly rules as they please.

    • @shirahara@lemm.ee
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      2 years ago

      Japanese local governments, let alone the central one, still have almost zero knowledge about the value of maintaining infrastructure which they should have full control. Virtually even discourses about it do not exist yet. Huge difference from the European governments.

    • infectoid
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      402 years ago

      I think most govt bodies do both.

      They run and report on their own infrastructure and also report wherever else the masses are.

      Really makes sense for govts to start running their own mastodon instances I reckon.

    • @Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca
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      182 years ago

      How often do you browse government sites?

      It’s easier to bring the information to the people than it is to bring the people to the information. Social Media is (has previously been…) perfect for that.

    • stopthatgirl7OP
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      242 years ago

      Thing is, it made sense until Twitter got sold to a capricious billionaire. Twitter was very stable and their rules didn’t change much before then. The APIs made them an easy way to send out a lot of info in a popular, easily to access way. It worked well as a system for both government agencies and citizens, until Elon decided to stick his dick in it.

      • Johannes Jacobs
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        112 years ago

        But thats exactly the problem :) some ego steps in and boom! As a foreign government you simply cant trust that a privatly owned company has your best interest at heart, and they shouldn’t.

    • @shirahara@lemm.ee
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      72 years ago

      Japanese local governments, let alone the central one, still have almost zero knowledge about the value of maintaining infrastructure which they should have full control. Virtually even discourses about it do not exist yet. Huge difference between the European governments.

      • Johannes Jacobs
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        62 years ago

        The beauty of that is that knowledge can be transferred :) But i suppose they have to be willing first.

        • @shirahara@lemm.ee
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          12 years ago

          Unless the governments would change radically how they see FOSS from a way of reducing money cost…

        • @shirahara@lemm.ee
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          12 years ago

          Fax machines are one of the main ways of communications there. I guess floppy disks are indeed partly used at municipal offices yet.

          • stopthatgirl7OP
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            12 years ago

            Oh, very much so. There was a big news story about two years ago where a police officer lost a floppy disk that had a bunch of people’s personal information on it.