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Halifax to phase out use of X as official social media platform
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Still marginally better than x, but I've always kinda thought it'd make sense for government entities who already have web hosting to host their own mastodon instance, for public offices to make announcements on, that they control.
Strongly agree. It's a service that federal or provincial governments could maintain for all (lower) levels of government, crown corps, etc. where account creation is restricted to those entities and prominent public figures within them. And just like that you have a secure, reliable, and accessible general purpose communications platform where every post is from a verified identity with clearly specified qualifications.
As a Nova Scotian...this is beyond the ability of any government in our province unfortunately. We are stuck somewhere around 2000 right now when it comes to internet tech. I agree wholeheartedly but a lot of education needs to happen in government circles first.
Surely it can't be that much harder to operate and secure than an email server, right?
Which they likely farm out to google here. No joke. It's crazy. I've lived a lot of places in Canada and the government's in the Maritimes by far are so behind in tech it's insane.
Our feds are no better. This just showed up on CBC...
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/canadian-permanent-resident-stranded-abroad-after-id-stolen-1.7504934
Similar dream I have for Ottawa - you give Chebucto Community Net a nice chunk of change to set up and maintain the infrastructure.
Been many, many years, but if the kind of person who worked/volunteered for CCN hasn't changed doubtless someone would be interested and have the skills.