• 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.