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.

  • @[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.