Agreed. If someone sends me a twitter link, even if public, I can’t read it as my privacy settings are such that they can’t get a unique ID on me. It forces a log in. Which I can’t, and won’t do.
My colleague can view public tweets, even if not logged in, as we assume Twitter can uniquely identify them, even if not logged in.
My guess would be because of the reach? Like, Twitter has a lot of users and a lot of important figures in politics worldwide use it. Not that many people, both as in political figures, and small users use the Fediverse.
I use neither Mastodon nor Twitter (I’ve never understood the value of microblogging) but one of them is freely available, the other one is restricted. In my view – as someone who has no account on either platform and only occasionally goes there if it’s linked somewhere – Mastodon has a much wider reach.
What do you mean? Because everybody should be able to read what the chancellor writes.
I guess the question if why don’t they directly publish the content on the website without going through Twitter
Agreed. If someone sends me a twitter link, even if public, I can’t read it as my privacy settings are such that they can’t get a unique ID on me. It forces a log in. Which I can’t, and won’t do.
My colleague can view public tweets, even if not logged in, as we assume Twitter can uniquely identify them, even if not logged in.
Or just use a different platform? Other large public entities have, like the BBC, CBC etc.
Oddly enough there is a mastodon instance run by a German federal agency: https://social.bund.de/
No idea why the chancellor doesn’t use it.
My guess would be because of the reach? Like, Twitter has a lot of users and a lot of important figures in politics worldwide use it. Not that many people, both as in political figures, and small users use the Fediverse.
But then again, you could just do both.
What reach? He literally needs to repost them elsewhere so people can read them freely.
I use neither Mastodon nor Twitter (I’ve never understood the value of microblogging) but one of them is freely available, the other one is restricted. In my view – as someone who has no account on either platform and only occasionally goes there if it’s linked somewhere – Mastodon has a much wider reach.