Not really. RSS feeds are better for announcements in my opinion, as there’s no account associated, and the ways of viewing them are even more flexible and simple than the Fedi infrastructure.
veeesix@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
So basically government fediverse instances.
IrritableOcelot@beehaw.org 3 weeks ago
veeesix@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
I think I’m mixing the two because there are services that kind of turn Mastodon into an RSS reader.
That’s true that it is somewhat more robust than requiring a federated account, but I think that comes at the cost of discoverability which may or may not be something you might want to broadcast on a social network anyway 🤷♂️
IrritableOcelot@beehaw.org 3 weeks ago
Absolutely! I’m certainly not going to insist that things should only be published on RSS feeds! Anything is better than the authoritative source for evacuation warnings being a Twitter account! Every platform has its place, I’m just a big fan of always starting with an RSS feed for announcements as the “root source”, then pushing changes to the feed to all other platforms.
AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 3 weeks ago
Government blogs and podcast-style data feeds
fonix232@fedia.io 3 weeks ago
Not even remotely? RSS/ATOM is in no way federated or has anything to do with the Fediverse.
All this means that government news will be accessible in a standardised format.