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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.