I think for me to abandon Twitter entirely, I'd need more official media orgs (e..g Sky, BBC, CNN) on here, more journalists because I get a lot of my news from Twitter (esp breaking news).

Also more official bodies (e.g. UKHSA, ONS) so I can see when new official research & stats are released on e.g. Covid, the economy, etc.

And finally academic journals (e.g. BMJ, Lancet, NEJM) who I rely on for latest health research!

Will they come?

@chrischirp i have already suggested to our comms team (part of uk govt) to set up a feeds.gov.uk or similar and thus have verified accounts

@kincaid @chrischirp

@danhon has some good arguments to take this approach here (along with a few cautions):

https://newsletter.danhon.com/archive/4230/

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@kincaid @chrischirp I'm guessing you've seen that the German govt has already set up an instance?

https://indieweb.social/@EmilyTav/109300410741915178

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So the German government has set up its own #mastodon #instance, simplifying validation—official accounts are on the server. Super interesting and curious if/who else will follow suit. https://social.bund.de/explore

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