Can the Fediverse be provided as a public service?
Watch Ian Forrester's FediForum keynote in which he is sharing his experience exploring this question at the BBC and beyond.
https://spectra.video/w/tvmXjF6zcAfVXPrcUuVc3T
/cc @cubicgarden
Well, I finally got around to evaluating the #ManageMyHealth portal;
https://managemyhealth.co.nz/about-us/
When my GP suggested I sign up with it, I presumed it was a public service offered by Te Whatu Ora, like My Health Record;
https://www.tewhatuora.govt.nz/health-services-and-programmes/digital-health/my-health-record
So what do I think of Manage My Health? Not impressed. This is a privately-owned, for-profit digital platform, that I can't be certain isn't #DataFarming patients who sign up with it.
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"Public services are inefficient"
Nope, neoliberalism fools us by dismantling public good, and blame it after. "Break it, blame it, sell it".
#neoliberalism #publicgood #services #publicservice #publicsystems
I suspect I'm not the only person trying to put in a late night submission in the RSB. The Parliamentary website is going slooooowwww ...
EDIT: I'm glad I draft my text on an EtherPad and copypasta it, rather than typing it onto the web form ; )
Again, I must protest that the official website for making Parliamentary submissions has hard dependencies on proprietary scripts served from domains owned by Goggle; google.com and gstatic.com
So a known DataFarmer has a number of potential backdoors into a system that is recording people's contact details and political views. Considering the role tech corporations are playing in the new USAmerican fascism, the wisdom of this is even more questionable.
"These agencies, these universities, these governments ... they've got so used to having a FB account, or an InstaGram account, that I don't think they can see how peculiar it will look to people in the future, that the PM's address is Justin@hotmail.com. Why would you put public information on a thing you don't own, when we now have the tools to get away from that."
@paige, 2025
https://video.fedihost.co/w/rnNZ3FxnH977sFUDpQTwC7
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If you look into the "comms" budgets of NZ public services, you'll find that every year they give huge pots of money to corporate platforms, to "promote" public service messages to kiwis using them. At the same, they've been considering making those same companies give money to legacy news media companies, instead of funding public interest journalism (FDNBB), and now they're cutting funding to public media.
This is absurd.
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#SocialMedia #PublicService #GovernmentCommunications #FDNBB
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