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Chicago Transit Authority deactivates X social media accounts (pdx.social)
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https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-transit-authority-deactivates-social-media-accounts-formerly-known-twitter-agency-confirms/15748349/

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[–] oatscoop@midwest.social 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Every city in the western world already has at least one rack of servers running 24/7. The have their own domain names, they have a web presence, etc -- running a mastodon instance on existing infrastructure hardly qualifies as wasteful.