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Well I mean it's a disease agency. Missinformation on X is bad. Their job however is about getting the word out to people of what to do to avoid diseases. People don't switch networks to follow their favorite health agencies. So... if the job is to warn people about serious shit... it kind of is important to be where the people are currently and try and get the facts heard among the misinformation.
I don't think the people still on X are going to be listening to the EU disease agency account.
They should (as you say) go where the people are... Which is threads and BlueSky. Follow the crowd.
No, they should be where no entity outside of European jurisdiction can influence their messaging.
The EU commission has their own Mastodon instance. That's how all public services should do it.
I wonder how long until Xitter does this sort of thing to the EU Disease Information account:
I feel like that level of misinformation is now possible there.
This makes me want to invoke the remind me bot, but I don't think we have one on Lemmy. I wager that we'll see this exact statememt from fridge-chest when the US gets hit with the next wave of 'rona.
Couldn't you set an alert in your calendar tool of choice with the comment link in the notes or title?
I considered it, but I don't think that future me would care much to go out of their way to inform an internet stranger that their prediction from a year ago was correct.
Fair point