• blue_zephyr@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    So Lemmy and Mastodon instances are free market solutions, unless a government does it? I don’t even understand what your point is.

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      1 year ago

      For media, a state platform in order of goodness:

      non state (open) platform > non state (closed) platform > State owned platform

      most times when the state takes an action it deprives it’s citizens of the beneficial outcomes of that action (skill, monetary).

      Which would be better - open instances in each country where the state ( country and regional/s) is a participant along with its citizens?

      Or instances where the state and its infinite power is private and above the people the state would govern?

      My reaction is not to a state using mastodon nor twitter for that matter. My reaction is to a state running mastodon separate from the people.

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        1 year ago

        I think you’re fundementally misunderstanding the purpose of these state instances. They’re a one-way broadcast channel from the government to the people. It’s not a social platform and no one except the government can create an account.

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            It verifies that what you are seeing is actually from a government agency. Like how .gov as a TLD verifies that you’re in a government website.

            You’re really fundamentally misunderstanding this whole situation. This is like the government running their own webserver to host a blog. It’s not government controlling anything.

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            It’s not worse or better than a social platform. It’s an entirely seperate tool. Broadcasting your official government messages through a community owned by other people that could delete your comments on a whim is not ideal. The people have already decided to put the owners in power through democratic elections, which are lightyears beyond the whims of narcisistic billionaires, admins and biased social media polls.