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Written by Stuart Celarier on 2025-01-04 at 22:07

This is how it's done! Chicago Transit Authority abandons X.

"After careful consideration, CTA has decided to suspend the use of its general information (@ cta) and service alerts (@ ctaAlerts) accounts on Twitter/X.com, as this social media platform no longer provides the value it once did for us to effectively reach and communicate with our riders."

Simply walk away. Don't look back. No need for elaborate explanations. Leave.

https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-transit-authority-deactivates-social-media-accounts-formerly-known-twitter-agency-confirms/15748349/

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Written by Leela Torres on 2025-01-04 at 22:40

@VisualStuart

Why don't they move there information service to Mastodon?

The city could create their own instance.

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Written by Ceremus on 2025-01-05 at 05:31

@LeelaTorres @VisualStuart Usually because then they incur legal liability for what other people post on their instance.

It's often not very well communicated on Mastodon, but owning a user-content service like a Mastodon instance comes with a whole host of moderation, safety, and legal responsibilities, and for many orgs it's more trouble than its worth for a service that isn't particularly widely used.

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Written by FediThing 🏳️‍🌈 on 2025-01-05 at 06:20

@ceremus @LeelaTorres @VisualStuart

You don't need to be open to signups. There are lots of single-user instances.

For example the European Union has its own instance to provide information, and doesn't accept signups so no one else can post on their instance.

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Written by Ceremus on 2025-01-05 at 06:55

@FediThing @LeelaTorres @VisualStuart

Being a single-user or private instance doesn't automatically exempt you from legal risks and responsibilities of owning a decentralized content server. If someone posts copyright infringing content, not hosted on your server but still appearing on your URL, a rights holder can come after you for that content. That sort of thing is increasingly likely nowadays that there are so many copyright troll shops issuing automated DMCA notices. Meaning you had better register a DMCA agent (if you reside in the US) if you want to be shielded from those potential lawsuits.

Entertaining substantially worse potential scenarios, if CSAM appears on your server, regardless of whether it is locally hosted or federated content, you must report that content to the required agencies.

If governments or other organizations consider their legal liabilities and still make their own fedi servers, more power to them. But looking at the possibilities there's little surprise to me that many of them go no further than making an account on an existing server and leave those risks to the server operator.

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Written by FediThing 🏳️‍🌈 on 2025-01-05 at 08:28

@ceremus @LeelaTorres @VisualStuart

There's a setting specifically for announcement-only servers which lets you purge locally stored remote posts:

https://fedi.tips/mastodon-admins-leave-the-content-cache-retention-period-blank/

You can set this to the minimum possible time, and it will delete everything stored on your server except your own posts. This causes havoc if activated on public servers, but for announcement-only servers it means you don't have to worry about a build-up of locally hosted remote content.

Apparently this feature was written specifically for the European Union when it set up its server.

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Written by FediThing 🏳️‍🌈 on 2025-01-05 at 08:33

@ceremus @LeelaTorres @VisualStuart

p.s. Public servers can also reduce their risks by adopting allowlists instead of blocklists, where they only federate with trustworthy other instances. This is possible on Mastodon if you run it in isolated mode:

https://fedi.tips/creating-an-isolated-server/

There are also other Fediverse platforms like GoToSocial where this is a prominent feature.

This also prevents outsiders from viewing anything remote on your server.

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Written by Lats (314 ppm) on 2025-01-04 at 22:45

@VisualStuart I imagine that President Musk will try to force them back to use his tool.

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Written by Stuart Celarier on 2025-01-04 at 23:38

@Lats Where "force" means "coerce."

Because money talks and that's how POTUS Musk rolls.

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Written by MEIDAS TCat Ignores the lies on 2025-01-04 at 23:36

@VisualStuart

💯

No government or business or journalist should ever post content on Twitter, a disinformation vortex.

There's no better way to destroy your credibility, while aiding the propagandists.

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Written by Scott Frazer on 2025-01-05 at 00:13

@VisualStuart the best time to have done this was when Musk limited non-logged-in users from browsing feeds in reverse-chronological order.

The second best time was now 😄

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Written by Pepperbike on 2025-01-05 at 00:31

@VisualStuart Great job CTA! I've love Chicago.

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Written by HoldMyType on 2025-01-05 at 00:38

@VisualStuart iirc their Mayer once lowered tax for #carpooling to improve traffic

some cool admin these people elect

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Written by Magnus Ahltorp on 2025-01-05 at 02:19

@VisualStuart I liked their music better before the ‘90s.

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Written by Laura on 2025-01-05 at 05:34

@VisualStuart 🎤💧

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Written by ajijulnaiya59 on 2025-01-05 at 06:22

@VisualStuart

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Written by Thibault Molleman 🔜 FOSDEM on 2025-01-05 at 07:08

@VisualStuart

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Written by Joe on 2025-01-05 at 07:53

@VisualStuart Yes, pre-Elon, even those without a Twitter account could see all the public tweets from any account using the web interface, so it was the cheapest way for agencies to communicate. But Elon broke that, so it no longer works for that purpose.

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Written by Lime Bar on 2025-01-05 at 16:32

👆 @VisualStuart

Their alert RSS feeds are here:

https://www.transitchicago.com/rss/

And this:

@cta

[#]chicago #cta #alerts

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Written by MidgePhoto on 2025-01-06 at 19:38

@VisualStuart tweets once useful have become xit.

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