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[-] orbitz@lemmy.ca 71 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

So with wildfires in Canada there's evacuation zones near me, but I can't click on some announcement links from the main site that shows the evacuation zones because they go to twitter and you need to log in now. I think they show some on other pages on the site but they do the quicklink to the twitter announcement in the sidebar so you have to click around a bit to get to it. Yes I know the name but whatever. My point being is when the social media site that was meant for short bits of info isn't good for emergency notifications where everyone can read, it's shitty and potentially harmful.

[-] RagingNerdoholic@lemmy.ca 32 points 1 year ago

Governments should either be operating their own systems for this or, hell I don't know, why not just spin up a their ready-to-go Mastodon instance or something else in the fediverse not subject to the delirious whims of a petulant muskrat born with daddy's money?

[-] LightningHaqeem@feddit.dk 8 points 1 year ago

Very much agree. I read that the Netherlands already did this!

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