Post #4450578
2026-08-08 09:07 UTC
For several glorious years, Britons delighted to the daily marvel of having their routine interactions with their government transformed from clunky, broken web-pages to slick, superbly thought through online processes that had all the polish of Amazon or Google, but without any of the gamesmanship, manipulation or privacy invasions:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_Digital_Service
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@pluralistic@mamot.fr 2026-08-08 09:07
Despite many attempts at official sabotage by a string of increasingly shambolic UK governments, the GDS still exists, and it still does amazing work, even though it operates today with a fraction of the official support that it enjoyed at its inception. The last time I renewed my UK passport, I was gobsmacked by how *easy* and *sensible* the process was. 8/