The Social Security Administration (SSA) unveiled Thursday that it would use the social platform X to make announcements going forward, instead of traditional press releases or memos typically posted to the agency’s website.
* for press releases and announcements
Headline makes it sound like internal communications, but that’s not the case at least currently. Still, we shouldn’t rely on third party services for important info - especially one that sometimes requires login to view
Kind of crazy to me that governments aren’t massively interested in hosting their own fediverse instances. It has huge appeal of providing announcements on a broader platform while also controlling your instance and still being from a .gov source.
That requires IT knowledge from a recent decade. Many municipalities have only recently discovered dialup internet.
As embarrassing as this is, if this bit of appeasement even slightly diminishes the damage they’re going to do to the SSA then I’m okay with it.
“I know this probably sounds very foreign to you — it did to me as well — and not what we are used to, but we are in different times now,” she added.
Blink if you’re in danger.
Jesus fucking Christ.
