When the MTA announced discontinuing their live subway alerts due to Twitter's new excessive pricing policy, I took it as an opportunity to set up @mtaupdates.
@snail@mtaupdates Not really, I've seen a few people mention Mastodon to them on Twitter. I'd definitely love for the city government to set up their own instance!
@stefan@mtaupdates I am wondering if it is different from what @ai6yr set up. Though for people who are in NYC maybe it is better to have two sources for it to be more reliable.
@stefan@mtaupdates@ai6yr Great to hear that and I do not mean to come across as discouraging this. I think this is the right place for public information because it is open and not controlled by any one company.
I'm going to keep @mtaupdates up and running for the foreseeable future (next week I'll post a tutorial on how I made it), but if you want to keep on top of any changes and disruptions to the public transit here in NYC, definitely check out @kona's transit bots:
@stefan@shiruken@mtaupdates All four accounts are fully operational! The timelines appear empty because this is implemented in ActivityPub, and I haven’t added the relevant Mastodon APIs to pull all posts (which is high on the todo list and there’s a GitHub issue). Once you follow they’ll start showing up in your timeline.