I have a long commute in and out of a large city. Since I spend so much time on the road, I always try to get the details of Amber Alert notifications to be on the lookout for vehicles used in abductions. I guess I can’t do that anymore since Twitter requires an account to see Amber Alerts. Hopefully my state finds another platform to post them.

  • Zed@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    I noticed I couldn’t see tweets my friend would send me without creating an account, guess I won’t be seeing any more tweets.

  • Gerowen@lemmy.worldEnglish
    0·
    1 year ago

    Not sure about what carrier you use or what device you use, but I’m on AT&T using a Pixel 6a with CalyxOS, which is just de-googled Android, and on Android if you accidentally swipe away an amber alert notification you can find it again by going to:

    Settings -> Safety & emergency -> Wireless emergency alerts -> Emergency alert history

    But your point still stands, governments and public institutions really need to stop relying on privately owned and operated social media platforms for posting stuff like this. If they want to use a social platform to publish alerts, they would be much better off standing up their own Mastodon instance that is “just” for those alerts. People could follow those accounts if they want, and those institutions wouldn’t be subject to the whims of overpaid unpredictable man children.

    • betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.worldEnglish
      04·
      1 year ago

      Good info, just wanted to add on with instructions for both major mobile platforms. Depending on your specific device and version, there may be some slight differences in how the menu options are worded and you might need to expand a collapsed section in the menu to see the settings.

      Source: Google support

  • LollerCorleone@kbin.social
    025·
    1 year ago

    This is why governments should stop relying on private companies and start setting up their own fediverse servers which they will have full control over.

    • zalack@kbin.social
      0·
      1 year ago

      I didn’t even consider the fact that the fediverse offers us the ability to start having publicly owned social media and government-run instances for direct communication.

      That could be very interesting…

      • LollerCorleone@kbin.social
        028·
        1 year ago

        Various EU agencies have already set up their own Mastodon instances and are pretty active in the fediverse.