If your employer had a Mastodon server for staff, would you use it?
-
@evan I do far too much shitposting to want my employer associated with it, or for them to find my posts.
-
Strong no.
Everything on the server is public to the server owner.
All it would take is one petty or vindictive manager to fire someone for something out of context.
-
@evan wouldn't that be useful for people not yet on fedi, so they don't have to choose an instance because there's already one with people they know? So basically the target audience is people who aren't voting in this poll?
-
@evan I'm on a trusted instance for work and personal (two accounts) and I prefer that. I like my job a good deal but running an instance (as opposed to just being on Mastodon) would be a thing sort of outside of our core mission and I'd be more worried it might not last as opposed to being on a trusted instance. We're a very teeny workplace.
-
@evan my clients have a lot of internal comms tools, mainly Slack & Teams right now. But it's ever changing.
Vanilla Slack could be easily replaced by an ActivityPub system, but I don't think Mastodon is up to the task right now.
I can't imagine relocating to their public Mastodon instance, if they had one. Their sr. management & board is evil and entirely untrustworthy and that's not changing any time soon.
-
👺防空識別區👹 （mix mastering）replied to Evan Prodromou last edited by
@evan I would not, primarily because I enjoy my own instance and being in control of my own infrastructure and online presence.
-
@evan Would it be internal or public?
-
@evan heh, don't @ me, got it
-
We have one at https://social.openearth.org/ and I do use it so Strong Yes. I guess also https://socialwebfoundation.org/ too!
-
Evan Prodromoureplied to Invisible Marcel 🌀 last edited by
@madjo is that typical for other digital services your employer provides?
-
@drsbaitso I did not, but there's no reason you couldn't use a public server just to connect with colleagues (and set your account to private).
-
@wordshaper why?
-
@tassoman I meant "for employees" but I didn't want to get into the distinction between employees, contractors, consultants, or whatever. "Staff" seems to cover them all.
-
Evan Prodromoureplied to Glowing Cat of the Nuclear Wastelands ☣ last edited by
@deathkitten do you use work email for personal stuff?
-
@ecksearoh why not?
-
@LinuxAndYarn yeah, that seems dumb. Do they give you an email address?
-
@undead do you use the company email server?
-
@luc yes, I think it would be great.
