• @wetsoggybread@lemmy.world
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    101 month 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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        11 month 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

        • @howrar@lemmy.ca
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          11 month 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?

          • @wetsoggybread@lemmy.world
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            21 month ago

            It doesn’t because you’re not just arching the original message but any comments and reactions that message receives as well