I have a background in disaster preparedness communication and would like the vocal ethics police on this app who keep insisting the “only” ethical course of action is to leave Twitter now to explain how Mastodon currently enables people living in the Gulf South today to get real-time warnings and information about the ongoing tornado outbreak on par with Twitter. They need this information now, so “let’s build something better” is a dodge. #LAwx #MsWx #Wx #BlackTwitter #BlackMastodon
@mergerson I think it's a case of the wrong tool for the job
#Mastodon is emphatically not about elevating important content above other because that involves the messiness of determining what is and isn't important.
So the answer is that Mastodon won't enable those people living in there to get real-time warnings and information about the ongoing tornado outbreak any more than a hammer will turn a screw.
That's simply not its purpose.
