• wetsoggybread@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    My friend works for a local town that has a presence on fb, twitter, and inatgarm. The main reason he says they haven’t moved to platforms like blsky is because as a government entity they are required to be able to archive all online communications for situations like a Right-to-know request but run into the issue that these small platforms aren’t supported by the archiving software so they can’t move away completely until then. Fun fact: 1st amendment prevents the government pages from removing or hiding comments you leave on their posta

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      2 days ago

      Would that stop them from duplicating the information on other platforms?

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        13 hours ago

        It does if it can’t be archived, any official posts must be available for a right to know request so they could post on Facebook or twitter but other sites that don’t have a way to archive or a third party to archive they can’t make official posts

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          12 hours ago

          But my question is, does it not count as being archived if it’s exactly the same message that’s posted to another platform that is archived?