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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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[-] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

And time moderating it, especially if they run their own.

Pitch a micro instance with little more than the rfc2142-like addresses emulated on there - info, mayor, council, admin or chat master, whatever - useful for tagging, forwarding on the way in and info dissemination on the way out.

Much less work to run, since outgoing is all gonna be pre-vetted.