The Canadian government on Friday demanded that Meta lift a "reckless" ban on domestic news from its platforms to allow people to share information about wildfires in the west of the country.

The Canadian government on Friday demanded that Meta lift a “reckless” ban on domestic news from its platforms to allow people to share information about wildfires in the west of the country.

  • recursive_recursion [they/them]AEnglish
    4•11 months ago

    I was initially thinking that our government could just start up a Lemmy instance but then I remembered how awful our current software infrastructure is

    like it’s not the worst but definitely far from the best available

    I dunno, maybe it’s worth trying anyways as it could kickstart a recursive update on everything else🤔¯\_(ツ)_/¯

    • @[email protected]English
      6•11 months ago

      Shouldn’t they just need to make some kind of ActivityPub-based system (or just setup a government run Mastodon instance if they don’t want to work with their own software) for distributing their information and then just start publishing the alerts that way? I could see a real niche for a simple ActivityPub system for governments and businesses who just need to publish information and don’t need all the multiuser/conversation features.

      • Zima
        2•11 months ago

        From their delusional point of view it’s cheaper to demand fb solve the problem.