[clowd]

Every member of Congress is provided with their own website, a subdomain of either house.gov or senate.gov, for the entirety of their term. If your representative neglects that website and chooses to communicate through a private outlet instead, that's something to complain to your representative about.

[josephcsible]

It's not a case of representatives neglecting that website. It's a case of the people not looking at that website, because they're too busy looking at Twitter instead.

[riffic]

the audience will move if necessary.

Open protocols should be the default. We have W3C recommendations that make the federated social web possible.

[josephcsible]

> Open protocols should be the default. We have W3C recommendations that make the federated social web possible.

I agree.

> the audience will move if necessary.

If we let that be the plan, then our filter bubble problem will get even worse. Everyone left of a certain point will only be on Twitter, and everyone else will only be on the fediverse. It's a lot less likely that people will follow anyone they disagree with if they'd need another account they couldn't otherwise use.