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How can we convince the city to set up a Mastodon account? (lemmy.ca)

submitted 3 weeks ago by Sunshine@lemmy.ca to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/32283041

As currently they’re only using YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

History has shown us time and time again that these corporate platforms are unreliable and untrustworthy.

•Twitter has a moderation problem.

•Facebook has been found interfering with the message delivery of crucial information during emergencies, putting people’s lives at risk.

•YouTube often takes down videos for the wildest of reasons and Google had a massive fight with the federal government over Canadian media outlet compensation. Who’s to say they won’t use their dominant position to sabotage the efforts of governments they don’t agree.

We could email the council requesting that they post on the platform.

They could set up an account on one of the larger well established Canadian instances or even better start up their own.

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[-] chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca 10 points 3 weeks ago

@Sunshine
From my, so far unsucessful experience in trying to get my local governments to use it:

There needs to be a place for them to go immediately and sign up and they need to walked through.
They need to be shown that there *are* people that are there.
3a) They need to be shown that the general public *can see* Mastodon posts on simple website or embedded regardless if they sign up or not.
3b) Simultaneously, they need to be reminded and shown that the public *cannot* see what happens on Twitter or Facebook or it is much harder.

[-] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 8 points 3 weeks ago

3b) Simultaneously, they need to be reminded and shown that the public *cannot* see what happens on Twitter or Facebook or it is much harder.

This is a fantastic point that I know I would have left out. If you're suggesting we should be complete so that the info is there and we're spelling out the implied difference, then I think that's excellent.