There is no reason why in this day and age that municipal, state, provincial, and federal #government cannot stand up their own #fediverse instances that they control to provide their citizens relevant information. Whether that be #mastodon, #lemmy, #kbin, #peertube, #pixelfeed, or #whatever. Why should we have to rely on #meta (#facebook and #instagram) or #x (#twitter) #databrokers for publicly funded and public relevant information and communication.
While that may be technically true (debatable), it misses the point of why they do it the way they do. Simply trying to convey information as an authoritative source is more easily solved by an announcements section on the official site, or a blog.
They post to Twitter (etc) because that’s where the people are, and that’s where the people want to see it. If the people wanted to sign up for SMS alerts, they would do it (and some have). If the people wanted the alerts on Mastodon, or Lemmy, or even something like Discord, they would do it.
That said, there’s very little reason for each agency, or even each city, to stand up their own instance for what is certain to be a very small feed.
Start with the need/desire, then design a solution to meet it. What you have described is a very specific solution that’s looking for a problem.
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