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@maxine@hachyderm.ioI’m still irritated that as Twitter died all the public information oriented campaigns (transit, fire service, govt announcements) didn’t shift to providing easy to access open technology alternatives for getting that information to people.
And I’m not talking about Mastodon or any other Fediverse stuff. I want RSS. I want to subscribe to a BVG feed to learn about disruptions, I want an easy to access feed of events and protests in my city…
Why Not Zoidberg? 
@maxine that's the main reason we still have a national wide FM radio service.
@maxine Protest info RSS, provided by friendly neighborhood police department.
@maxine if it were mastodon you'd get your RSS for free
@maxine
Agree. But Mastodon would be a good first step, as you can follow Mastodon accounts through their RSS URL.
@maxine Sell some overpriced RSS software to cities (make sure to do that via some software distributor that is at least 90% marketing and sales) with some fancy web UI that looks good in a sales presentation (make sure that manual data works well) connectors to popular software managing RSS-able things at a slight extra price and you’ll see cities left and right adopting it.
(No please don’t actually do that)
Unfortunate observed reality 
As an alternative: Write CMS plugins that turn the unstructured data into structured data and be okay with it being sold.