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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.

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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.

the audience will move if necessary.

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

> 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.

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