TIL the german chancellor takes screenshots of his tweets on X and publishes it on his website because X is now a closed system.
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!
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
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.
Or just use a different platform? Other large public entities have, like the BBC, CBC etc.
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.
That's great.
Germany has one as well. No clue why he's not using that
The EU is too, there are some German institutions that do too, the Germans were early adopters
Multiple, actually. There is one for the government, and one for the city of Amsterdam.
If only there was an open source alternative...
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
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.
Imagine getting paid to do that.
tweets were on twitter.
On X it's called x-crements.
X-eets and x-itter.
Use the Chinese pronunciation